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platan

pla·tan

UK/ˈplat(ə)n/ uncommon archaic literary

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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

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Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.

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