| platan | 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 |
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| platan | coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees |
| platan | river dolphins |
| platan | herbaceous terrestrial orchids of temperate northern and southern hemispheres |
| platan | south European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers |
| platan | south European orchid with dark green flowers that are larger and less fragrant than Platanthera bifolia |
| platan | of central North America |
| platan | genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane |
| platan | very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree |
| platan | very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico |
| platan | large tree of southeastern Europe to Asia Minor |
| platan | tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers |