plane tree
nounEtymology From plane + tree.
1
Any of various trees of the genus Platanus.
- The day was still beautiful, but by now the sun was very hot and the plane-trees, spaced about twenty feet apart on the grass verge between the pavement and the broad tarmac, gave a cool shade.1953, Ian Fleming, “Two Men In Straw Hats”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 42:
2
Mathematics, Sciences An ordered tree, a type of graph, in which the child nodes of each vertex have a definite number assigned.
- Derived terms
- American planetree