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  • noun Any of various trees of the genus Platanus.

Etymologies

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plane +‎ tree

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Examples

  • Enloe Hospital recently adopted the "planetree" philosophy of patient center care.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • This logo represents the "planetree" sycamore embracing the mother and newborn child.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.

    Ulysses 2003

  • For those who make false statements, and say that an attribute belongs to thing which does not belong to it, commit error; and those who call objects by the names of other objects (e.g. calling a planetree a ‘man’) transgress the established terminology.

    Topics 2002

  • Plaquemine (plak'men), Bayou of (bi'oo) an inlet from the Mississippi river in Louisiana. planetree, an Oriental tree, rising with a straight, smooth branching Stem to a great height; the sycamore or buttonwood. plashy (plash'i), watery; splashy

    Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

  • In the mild breezes of the west and of the east the lofty trees wave in different directions their firstclass foliage, the wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Shall I esteem a barren planetree and shorn myrtles beyond the fruitful olive and the elm courting the embraces of the vine?

    The Training of a Public Speaker Grenville Kleiser 1910

  • ” He said that the Athenians did not honor him or admire him, but made, as it were, a sort of planetree of him; sheltered themselves under him in bad weather, and, as soon as it was fine, plucked his leaves and cut his branches.

    Themistocles Plutarch 1909

  • The mind, the growth of which he describes, is not forced into activity, or hatched prematurely by electric heat; it developes sweetly, gradually, and in finest harmony with the beautiful and the great around it -- like a fir amidst the plantations of Woodmyre, or a planetree on the far-seen heights of

    The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845

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