NOUN
- 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
How To Use plane tree In A Sentence
- Plane Tree Grove is a residential area about a quarter of a mile from the airport.
- I remember that with the help of my agent we stopped the publication of a calamitous German transmogrification of Loves That Bind where everything was translated and the Paris plane trees were transformed into banana trees.
- Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du Château de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra. Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011
- They used to be quiet oases in the city's most densely populated areas, with beautiful old palms, jacarandas and plane trees and green lawns offering refuge from high-rise living.
- In Kashmir, Farsi khanna, Persian food, is the supreme cuisine; and of the chenar, the transplanted plane tree, or sycamore, of Persia (so prominent in both Persian and Indian Moghul painting) it is even said that its shade is medicinal. Among the Believers
- They were sitting in their small back garden, eating and drinking at a table under a plane tree. THE GOLDEN LION
- Inside are three full-scale soccer pitches, set off by allées of plane trees like those along the boulevard Port-Royal.
- And Michael searched, while he strode beneath plane trees half-stripped of leaves and plume-like in the dark, for the fun in his position. The White Monkey
- For some reason the Spaniards saw a likeness between the banana tree and the totally different plane tree, which is how the plantain got its confusing name.
- The bark of plane trees peels off regularly.