Plane Tree Definition

plāntrē
noun
Any of several trees of the genus Platanus, having ball-shaped fruit clusters and, usually, outer bark that flakes off in patches.
American Heritage

Plane.

Webster's New World

Alternative form of planetree.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Designating a family (Platanaceae, order Hamamelidales), of deciduous, dicotyledonous trees, consisting of the plane trees.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Plane Tree

Noun

Singular:
plane tree
Plural:
plane trees

Origin of Plane Tree

  • plane tree

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Plane Tree Sentence Examples

  • On the Lechaeum road, on which a bewildering wealth of fountains and statues is enumerated, only the Baths of Eurycles below the plane tree were found; deep diggings were made into them, and the foundations of the facade laid bare.

  • Near the town was the famous fountain of Sauros, inclosed by fruit-bearing poplars; and not far from this was another spring, overhung by an evergreen plane tree which in popular belief marked the scene of the amours of Zeus and Europa.

  • At last he came (here some words are missing) and began to teach sitting under a plane tree.

  • It is said to be particularly resistant to plane tree anthracnose.

  • Sculptures in large numbers, both of the Greek city and the Roman, are collected in the new museum erected by the Greek government near the plane tree.

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