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 platan In A Sentence
- Spenser's art) 7 The warlike beech; the ash for nothing ill; warlike > (Because war-chariots in antiquity were reputedly made of beech) 8 The fruitful olive; and the platan round; platan > plane-tree The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
- The Noche Mexicana menu featured pierna Apatzingan style, pollo barbaco estilo Patzcuarense, pescado en hoya de platano, chicharrones in some kind of sauce, and puntas de filet, topped off with platanos machos horneados en ron or flan. Dia de la Independencia -- Viva Mexico!
- Principal forest species include Scots pine Pinus silvestris, Norway spruce Picea abies, hornbeam Carpinus betulus, little-leaved lime Tilia cordata, oak Quercus robur, sycamore Acer platanoides, maple Acer spp., ash Fraxinus excelsior, downy and white birch Betula pubescens and B. verrucosa, aspen Populus tremula and black alder Alnus glutinosa. Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus
- (Xenopus laevis, also known as platanna) is a species of Xenopus. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- Nýja platan hennar, "Two Suns" er í nánast stöðugri spilun hjá mér þessa dagana. B-Town Hit Parade
- Þeir eiga þessi hjörtu enn því nýja platan þeirra 'Voyager' hefur fengið fínar viðtökur síðan hún kom í heiminn í sumar. B-Town Hit Parade
- Comparisons: The Norway maple is apt to be confused with the _sycamore maple_ (_Acer pseudoplatanus_), but differs from the latter in having a reddish bud instead of a green bud, and a close bark instead of a scaly bark. Studies of Trees
- Lower elevations are characterized by mixed deciduous broadleaf forests (Q. robur, Fraxinus excelsior, Tilia platyphyllos, T. cordata, Ulmus glabra, Acer pseudoplatanus, A. platanoides). Cantabrian mixed forests
- 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 ...
- And what the effects and benefit of such plantations have produc’d, is conspicuous in one of the most celebrated cities of the East, the famous Ispahan, clear’d of the pestilence, since the surrounding it with that beautiful platan, as I have already noted. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
