Meanings
plural plane trees · alternative planetree · alternative plane-tree
- Any of various trees of the genus Platanus.
The day was still beautiful, but by now the sun was very hot and the plane-trees, spaced about twenty feet apart on the grass verge between the pavement and the broad tarmac, gave a cool shade.
1953, Ian Fleming, “Two Men In Straw Hats”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 42 - mathematicsAn ordered tree, a type of graph, in which the child nodes of each vertex have a definite number assigned.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Biblical Hebrew עַרְמוֹן
- עַרְמוֹן ('armón)tree
German Platane
- Platanetree
Greek πλάτανος
- πλάτανος (plátanos)tree
Hebrew דֹּלֶב, דולב
- דֹּלֶב (dólev)tree
- דולב (dólev)tree
Polish platan
- platantree
Russian плата́н, чина́ра
- плата́н (platán)tree
- чина́ра (činára)tree
Scottish Gaelic pleantrainn, pleintri
- pleantrainntree
- pleintritree
Swedish platan
- platantree
Cite this entry
plane tree. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plane%20tree
“plane tree.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plane%20tree. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plane tree,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plane%20tree.
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