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planetree

planetree is the alternative form 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.

Synonyms of planetree

Forms of planetree

pluralplanetrees
alternative formplane tree
alternative formplane-tree

Origin of planetree

From plane + tree.

Phrases with planetree

Questions about planetree

What is planetree the alternative form of?
Planetree is the alternative form of plane tree.

Words near planetree in the dictionary

  1. planetology
  2. planetophysics
  3. Planetos
  4. planetquake
  5. planetquakes
  6. planetree
  7. planetrees
  8. planetrise
  9. planetrises
  10. planets
  11. planetscape

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Adapted from Wiktionary: planetree (page history and authors); plane tree (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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