platan

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

platan
    n 1: 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: {plane tree}, {sycamore},
         {platan}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Platan \Plat"an\, n. [L. platanus. See {Plane} the tree.]
   [Written also {platane}.]
   The plane tree. --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster]

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