platan

British  

/ ˈplætən /

noun

1. another name for plane tree

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Etymology

Origin of platan

C14: from Latin platanus, from Greek platanos; see _{plane tree}

Example Sentences

See Book iii. before his waking up in Venice, the lines beginning "Rather say My transcendental platan!"

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

Till I espied thee, fair indeed and tall, Under a platan; yet methought less fair, Less winning soft, less amiably mild, Than that smooth watery image.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

I was not carried away, instructed, delighted more than by other works, but I was there, living there, whether as the platan tree, or the architect, or any other observing part of the scene.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret