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Platanus   Listen
noun
Platanus  n.  (Bot.) A genus of trees; the plane tree.





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"Platanus" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Platanus" :   oriental plane, London plane, platan, genus Platanus, Platanus racemosa, Platanaceae, buttonwood, plane tree, California sycamore, Platanus wrightii


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