platan Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    sycamore; plane tree.

WordNet

Plat"an noun
Etymology
L. platanus. See Plane the tree.
Definitions
  1. The plane tree. Tennyson.

Webster 1913