platan

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Definition of platan in English English dictionary

A plane tree

Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee .

any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits

The plane tree

Hyphenation

plat·an

Etymology

() From Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.