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plural platans
(now rare, literary) A planetree. quotations
Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...].
1633, John Donne, The Autumnall
A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.
1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […]