Platan: alternatives and connections

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Platan

The plane tree.

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Buttonwood 76% connected

The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and,…

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Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Substance part 1

Sycamore 70% connected

A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.

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Plane tree 92% connected

Same as 1st Plane.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sycamore 92% connected

A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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