Definition of "plane-tree" []

• A tree of the genus Platanus, especially P. orientalis (noun)
• The sycamore maple, Acer Psendo-platanus: so called from the similarity of its leaves to those of the plane. Other maples are also sometimes known as plane-trees. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "“Why, the golden plane-tree that is so belauded is not big enough to furnish shade to a single grasshopper.”"
• "Even so they were at first, if you will believe that pleasant tale of Socrates, which he told fair Phaedrus under a plane-tree, at the banks of the river Iseus; about noon when it was hot, and the grasshoppers made a noise, he took that sweet occasion to tell him a tale, how grasshoppers were once scholars, musicians, poets,"
• "Here, under the ample shade of a plane-tree, that spread its majestic canopy towards the river,"