PLANE TREE
Dictionary entry overview: What does plane tree mean?
• PLANE TREE (noun)
The noun PLANE TREE has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: PLANE TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PLANE TREE (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
plane tree; platan; sycamore
Hypernyms ("plane tree" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (substance of "plane tree"):
lacewood; sycamore (variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plane tree"):
London plane; Platanus acerifolia (very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree)
American plane; American sycamore; buttonwood; Platanus occidentalis (very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico)
oriental plane; Platanus orientalis (large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor)
California sycamore; Platanus racemosa (tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers)
Arizona sycamore; Platanus wrightii (medium-sized tree of Arizona and adjacent regions having deeply lobed leaves and collective fruits in groups of 3 to 5)
Holonyms ("plane tree" is a member of...):
genus Platanus; Platanus (genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore)
