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Meanings of platan in English

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plataner

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.

        plataner
        Synonyms
        Examples for "sycamore"
        Examples for "sycamore"
        1
        There was a thrush singing in the dusk of the sycamore leaves.
        Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
        2
        He took out his sycamore scroll and placed it by the candle.
        The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
        3
        Maybe the church, with the sycamore growing from within, had been haunted.
        The Alchemist
        4
        Perhaps it was a boyish feeling that took me to the sycamore.
        Montlivet
        5
        The solitary sycamore in the ravine is known as Robin Hood's Tree.
        The Guardian
        1
        An enormous plane tree in the middle of the stage, standing alone.
        Cyrano de Bergerac
        2
        Abruptly he led the way to the steps near the plane tree.
        In the Wilderness
        3
        He saw that he must be a plane tree for somebody else.
        One of Ours
        4
        As it was, I waited in the courtyard, under a plane tree.
        The stranger
        5
        Come and walk with me here down the long plane tree avenue.
        Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories
        Usage of platan in English
        1
        8 The fruitful olive; and the platan round;
        The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for platan
        Platan through the time