PLATANE Synonyms

• very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico

• wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring

• any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

• an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

• (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

• a level of existence or development

• a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

• a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood

• having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

• cut or remove with or as if with a plane

• travel on the surface of water

• make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane

• variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

• 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

• Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn

• thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore