What does platan mean?
Platan means (now rare, literary) A planetree..
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/ˈplat(ə)n/ · noun
(now rare, literary) A planetree..
Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...].
A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.
Use platan when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Platan means (now rare, literary) A planetree..
Common synonyms include plane tree, sycamore.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...].
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