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Platan

//ˈplat(ə)n// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A planetree. archaic, literary

    "Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...]."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.

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