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plane tree

plane tree noun: any of various trees of the genus Platanus.

plane tree: any of various trees of the genus Platanus
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Noun

plane tree (plural plane trees)

  1. Any of various trees of the genus Platanus.
    • The day was still beautiful, but by now the sun was very hot and the plane-trees, spaced about twenty feet apart on the grass verge between the pavement and the broad tarmac, gave a cool shade.1953, Ian Fleming, “Two Men In Straw Hats”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 42
  2. An ordered tree, a type of graph, in which the child nodes of each vertex have a definite number assigned.

plane tree meaning in Urdu

plane tree in Urdu

چنار

Forms of plane tree

pluralplane trees
alternative formplanetree
alternative formplane-tree

Origin of plane tree

From plane + tree.

Words formed from plane tree

Questions about plane tree

What does plane tree mean?
Plane tree means any of various trees of the genus Platanus.
What is plane tree in Urdu?
Plane tree in Urdu is چنار. See Plane tree meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is plane tree?
Plane tree is a noun.
What is the plural of plane tree?
The plural of plane tree is plane trees.

Words near plane tree in the dictionary

  1. plane sailing
  2. plane table
  3. plane tables
  4. plane ticket
  5. plane tickets
  6. plane tree
  7. plane trees
  8. plane trigonometries
  9. plane trigonometry
  10. plane wave
  11. plane waves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plane tree (page history and authors); plane tree (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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