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Platanus

noun
1.
Genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore.  Synonym: genus Platanus.



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... emblem writers the Plane was an example of something good to the eye, but of no real use. Camerarius so moralizes it (Pl. xix.), and, quoting Virgil's "steriles platanos," he says of it, "umbram non fructum platanus dat." ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe


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