PLATANUS

• PLATANUS (noun)
  The noun PLATANUS has 1 sense:

1. genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore

  Familiarity information: PLATANUS used as a noun is very rare.

• PLATANUS (noun)

Meaning:

Genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Platanus; Platanus

Hypernyms ("Platanus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Platanus"):

plane tree; platan; sycamore (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)

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 ("Platanus" is a member of...):

family Platanaceae; plane-tree family; Platanaceae (coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees)