platanus acerifolia

1. 1.

   very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree

   SynonymsLondon plane

   Broaderplane tree

   Part ofPlatanus

Questions about platanus acerifolia

What does platanus acerifolia mean?

platanus acerifolia means "very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree".

What is another word for platanus acerifolia?

Close synonyms include London plane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is platanus acerifolia a common word?

platanus acerifolia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.