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plane trees

plane trees is the plural of plane tree.

Meaning of plane tree

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.

Questions about plane trees

What is plane trees the plural of?
Plane trees is the plural of plane tree.

Words near plane trees in the dictionary

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

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