| 单词 |
platanus |
| 释义 |
‖ platanus|ˈplætənəs| Also 8–9 plantanus. [L., a. Gr. πλάτανος: see plane n.1] 1. = platan. Also platanus-tree. Now rare.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxix. (Bodl. MS.), Platanus..haþ þat name for þe leues þerof ben playne brode and large. 1683Evelyn Diary 16 Aug., He shewed me the zinnar tree or platanus. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 55 The Plantanus is a very beautiful Tree, and grows very well in England. 1808Scott Autobiogr. in Lockhart Life I. i. 38 Beneath a huge platanus-tree..in the garden I have mentioned. 2. Bot. The name of a genus of trees constituting the family Platanaceæ and consisting of from six to nine species, of which P. orientalis, P. occidentalis, and P. acerifolia, are among the best known. See plane n.1 |

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