单词 | platan |
释义 | platann. Now rare (chiefly archaic and literary). A plane tree, esp. Platanus orientalis. 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 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xxiv. 19 As a fair olyue in feeldis, & as a platan [v.r. plaunt; a1425 L.V. plane tree; L. platanus] I am enhauncid beside þe water in stretis. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 303 Iacob took grene ȝerdes of populers of almand trees and of platans. 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue Ep. Ded. sig. A3v I humbly make request, that..these my little ones maye shrowde them selues vnder the broad leafed Platane of your Honours patronage. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A4 The fruitfull Oliue, and the Platane round. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 478 I espi'd thee, fair indeed and tall, Under a Platan . View more context for this quotation 1766 E. Carter Poems Several Occasions (ed. 2) 17 Beneath the genial Platane's spreading Shade. 1781 Beauties of Spring i. 11 The rugged elm and platan into floods Of verdure burst. 1834 R. M. Milnes Memorials of Tour in Greece 78 The glorious platans, whose boughs uniting with those of the other side of the stream lead it on under one continual bower. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche vi. ix. 69 A forest thick and dark With heavy ilexes and platanes high. Compounds platan leaf n. ΚΠ 1851 R. C. Trench Study of Words ii. 42 To compare the shape of this region [sc. lower Greece] to platane leaf. 1870 Ladies' Repository Sept. 219/1 Morea, so called from its resemblance in shape and incised edges to a platane leaf. a1891 J. R. Lowell Early Poems (1892) 176 Like ripply lights the sunshine weaves..On the o'erarching platan-leaves. ΚΠ 1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 10 To draw My mistresse pourtraict, which on platane table With nature matching colours as he saw Her leaning on her elbow. platan tree n. 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 a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxxi. 8 Loo! Assur as a cedre in Liban..bechis weren not euen to his heiȝnes, and platan trees [a1425 L.V. plane trees; L. platani] weren not euen to his bouwis. a1657 G. Daniel Ecloges in Poems (1878) II. 170 Soe the mad Roman, who to make more fine His Platan Trees, drencht them in Shewers of wine. 1789 E. Craven Journey through Crimea (ed. 2) xlvi. 272 Enjoying the shade of an immense platane-tree. 1869 M. Fuller in A. B. Fuller Life without Life Within 50 I was there, living there, whether as the platan tree, or the architect, or any other observing part of the scene. 1988 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 92 281 Large platan trees on each side framed this beautiful picture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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