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planeIn botany, any of several trees belonging to the plane family. Species include the oriental plane (P. orientalis), a favourite plantation tree of the Greeks and Romans, and the American plane or buttonwood (P. occidentalis). A hybrid of these two is the London plane (P. x acerifolia), with palmate, usually five-lobed leaves, which is widely planted in cities for its resistance to air pollution. (Genus Platanus, family Platanaceae.) All species have hanging burlike fruits and can grow to 30 m/100 ft high. plane
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In the case of the line, this common boundary is the point; in the case of the plane, it is the line: for the parts of the plane have also a common boundary. In this scrap-book is such testimony relating to my shady side, as I have within the past ten years been able to cut from the columns of my competitors in the business of elevating humanity to a higher plane of mind and morals - my 'loathsome contemporaries. The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. |
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