Any of a genus (Platanus of the family Platanaceae, the plane-tree family) of chiefly deciduous trees with large palmately lobed leaves, flowers in globose heads, and usually scaling bark — called also buttonwood, plane tree, sycamore<br /> In botany, any tree of the genus Platanus. Species include the oriental plane p. orientalis, a favorite plantation tree of the Greeks and Romans and the American plane or buttonwood p. occidentalis. A hybrid of these two is the London plane p. x acerifolia, with palmate, usually five-lobed leaves, which is widely planted in cities for its resistance to air pollution.
All species have pendulous burrlike fruits and are capable of growing to 30 m/100 ft high. + prikaži više

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; SYN. sycamore, platan.

Plane.