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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
plane tree
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The plane tree above seemed dark and sinister.
▪ There, in the secret shade of the plane tree.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plane tree

Plane tree \Plane" tree`\ (Bot.) Same as 1st Plane.

Wiktionary
plane tree

n. (alternative form of planetree English)

WordNet
plane tree

n. 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 [syn: sycamore, platan]

Usage examples of "plane tree".

Twice more, as they moved swiftly into the centre of Mandrakos, flitting from the shadow of carob grove to carob grove, from the shadow of plane tree to plane tree, from the shadow of house to house, they came upon but easily avoided other ostensible sentries, all busy interpreting their duties in a very liberal fashion.

How long has it been since he stopped hanging Christians from the plane tree or putting them in the pillory?

Sitting cross-legged beneath the branches of a nodding plane tree, Michael lifted his right hand, palm toward the earth.

He could see the driver with his back to them, taking a leak against the bole of an old scabrous plane tree that bad somehow survived the industrial abuse and pollution.

Under the first plane tree in the village square of Margaritha--at the mouth of the valley about three miles south of the fortress--you will find a man called Louki.

Louki and Panayis and Margaritha--the first plane tree in the square.

The car coasted and then braked to one side of die road, under the shade of a plane tree.

He could see each leaf of the plane tree to his right, silhouetted, yellow-green intermingling with a mystery of darkness.

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane tree, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary.