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Platanus

noun
1.
Genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore.  Synonym: genus Platanus.



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Platanus acerifolia
Platanus occidentalis
Platanus orientalis
Platanus racemosa
Platanus wrightii


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... the Adansonia, like the ochroma, and all the plants of the family of bombax, grow much more rapidly* than the dracaena, the vegetation of which is very slow. (* It is the same with the plane-tree (Platanus occidentalis) which M. Michaux measured at Marietta, on the banks of the Ohio, and which, at twenty feet from the ground, was 15.7 feet in diameter. —"Voyage a l'Ouest des Monts Alleghany" 1804 page 93. The yew, chestnut, oak, plane-tree, deciduous cypress, bombax, mimosa, caesalpina, hymenaea, ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt
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Words linked to "Platanus" :   family Platanaceae, Platanaceae, London plane, rosid dicot genus, Platanus wrightii, American plane, sycamore, American sycamore, genus Platanus, oriental plane, plane-tree family, Platanus acerifolia, buttonwood, California sycamore, platan, Platanus racemosa, Arizona sycamore, plane tree


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