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Plane tree Bot. Same as 1st Plane.
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plane tree
n : 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 [syn: sycamore, platan]
Plane tree
Heb. 'armon (Gen. 30:37; Ezek. 31:8), rendered "chesnut" in the
Authorized Version, but correctly "plane tree" in the Revised
Version and the LXX. This tree is frequently found in Palestine,
both on the coast and in the north. It usually sheds its outer
bark, and hence its Hebrew name, which means "naked." (See CHESTNUT.)