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platan

NOUN
  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

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  • Las Palmas, in North Hollywood, has delicious stews and fufu de platanos garlicky enough to raise the dead.
  • A YouTube commenter they're all so civilized in this thread! correctly points out that the dish is a direct descendant of West African 'fufu', which in Cuba is sometimes called fufu de plátano. Boing Boing
  • transcendental platan," breaking into foliage and flower at the summit of its smooth tall bole; the splendour of flame leaping from the dull fuel of gums and straw. Robert Browning
  • Dispersed in the grasslands are trees of Crecentia cujete, Ceiba pentandra, Lecythis minor, Ochroma pyramidale, Prosopis juliflora, Cavanillesia platanifolia and palms trees of Sabal mauritiiformis, Acrocomia aculeate, Attalea butyracea and several Bactris spp. Sinú Valley dry forests
  • Moquin [263] relates having found in the neighbourhood of Montpellier a flower of a tulip the ovary of which was represented by true leaves, which bore on their margins the ovules, and thus presented a striking analogy with the carpels of those Sterculias, like _S. platanifolia_, which are foliaceous in texture and open very early in the course of their development. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • The rivers used by most platanistids are muddy, and these animals probably rely on echolocation more than vision to locate their prey.
  • Its flora is dominated by ferns, pines, Sequoia, laurels, and Platanus.
  • A tree whose botanical name is sterculia platanifolia. Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
  • SusuThe susu, Platanista gangetica spp., lives in the Indus and Ganges river systems. Archive 2006-12-01
  • Last year, for example, a Cape Town man was convicted for the illegal collection, possession, transport and export of 13000 platanna frogs. ANC Daily News Briefing
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