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
- Oriental plane trees, cypresses and elms were planted in straight rows to provide structure and shade, while groves of fruit trees added colour and scent, with blossom in spring and summer and fruit at harvest time.
- Outside, the plane trees along the street have the same sameness about them, pollarded in a way I used to think cruel.
- As you hike up through the gracious park, dotted with palaces turned museums, crickets chirr in the plane trees and pines.
- Outside, the plane trees along the street have the same sameness about them, pollarded in a way I used to think cruel.
- Cephissus, where in the starlit night the tettix (4) in the black old olives by the stream made its monotonous music, where great fireflies gleamed, where Philomela the nightingale called, and the tall plane trees whispered softly to the pines. A Victor of Salamis
- Tall poplars, limes and plane trees meshed in unpruned disorder around the fenced edges of the plot. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
- The restaurant sits formally on a terrace under plane trees, above a meandering garden of roses and lavender. Times, Sunday Times
- 196 Chapter 24 Anna sits at the large oak desk in her chambers and looks out at the plane tree whose leaves are just beginning to unfurl. SEA MUSIC
- The leaves are beginning to turn yellow on the plane trees in city streets. Times, Sunday Times
- Under a platan i] The plane tree so named from the breadth of its leaves » a tree useful and delightful for its extraordinary shade, Virg. Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson ...
