Definition of Genus Platanus

1. Noun. Genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Platanus

genus Pithecia
genus Pithecolobium
genus Pitta
genus Pituophis
genus Pitymys
genus Pityrogramma
genus Placuna
genus Plagianthus
genus Planera
genus Planococcus
genus Plantago
genus Plasmodiophora
genus Plasmodium
genus Platalea
genus Platanthera
genus Platanus (current term)
genus Platichthys
genus Platycerium
genus Platylobium
genus Platymiscium
genus Platypoecilus
genus Platystemon
genus Plautus
genus Plecotus
genus Plectania
genus Plectorrhiza
genus Plectranthus
genus Plectrophenax
genus Pleione
genus Pleiospilos

Literary usage of Genus Platanus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1915)
"The Paleontologic History of the genus Platanus History.—Written Nov. 24, to Dec. 13, 1887. The title originally given to the article was The Pedigree of ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"By Prof. LESTER F. WARD, US Geological Survey, Washington, DC [ABSTRACT. | THE genus Platanus is one of those waning types, like Ginkgo, Sequoia, ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"THE genus Platanus is one of those waning types, like Ginkgo, Sequoia, Liriodendron, etc., of which so much has been said of late, and though now ..."

4. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"(P. orientalis) ORIENTAL PLANE There are six species of the genus Platanus found in the Northern Hemisphere, and equally divided between the Old and New ..."

5. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1876)
"... removed by the presence in our lignitic Eocene of some very beautiful and well characterized species of tbis genus: Platanus Haydenii ami P. ..."

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