单词 | american plane tree |
释义 | > as lemmasAmerican plane tree b. American plane (more fully American plane tree) the North American buttonwood or Virginian plane, Platanus occidentalis; cf. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > plane-trees > [noun] platanusOE planea1382 platana1382 plane treea1425 platan treea1425 plantain1535 plane1562 dwarf plane tree1578 chenar1638 buttonwood1670 platanus tree1670 Norway maple1731 water beech1735 American plane1781 sycamore1814 buttonball1818 London plane1860 sycamore-tree1872 1781 S. Fullmer Young Gardener's Best Compan. 24 Platanus—Plane Tree—Eastern Plane—Western, or American Plane. 1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 433 American Plane or Sycamore. 1904 J. McFarland Getting Acquainted with Trees 213 As the species is free from the attacks of a nasty European ‘bug,’ or fungus, which is bothering the American plane, it is much safer to handle commercially. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 57/1 It has traditionally been regarded as a hybrid between the oriental plane, P. orientalis , a native of the eastern Mediterranean, and the American plane, P. occidentalis. < as lemmas |
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