London plane

noun

: a large pollution-resistant plane (Platanus acerifolia) often planted as a street tree that is a hybrid between an Eurasian plane (P. orientalis) and the American sycamore (P. occidentalis)

called also London plane tree

Examples of London plane in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Photo : Nils Timm The foyer overlooks a central courtyard laced with London plane trees. —Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2025

Lots of trees died throughout the city — namely London plane trees, which are not salt tolerant. —Benji Jones, Vox, 11 July 2024

Used as a stomping ground for many characters in street scenes as well as a proxy for London’s Covent Garden, Bath’s picture-perfect city square Abbey Green — with a 200-year-old London plane tree at its center and Abbey Deli (The Modiste Shop onscreen) — is another recognizable spot. —Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024

For reasons that are not fully understood, several hundred parrots seek evening accommodations each night in the limbs of fig and London plane trees lining a bustling stretch of Rosemead Boulevard in Temple City. —Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024

The path makes its roundabout way toward a fountain with a lone London plane tree at the center. —Curbed, 13 Nov. 2022

After the last of the cherry tree was thrown into a chipper, workers began mowing down a London plane, and its hacked limbs were now cascading to the ground. —New York Times, 18 May 2022

The cozy space—with a six-seat omakase counter in the back and several bar seats in the front—features handsome wood countertops carved from a London plane tree that fell in Red Hook, Brooklyn, during Hurricane Sandy, in 2012. —Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022

Features include a rose garden with 25 beds of roses, an island on the 3.5 acre lake housing beehives, two huge London plane trees planted side by side by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and even a wicker corgi looking out from the Queen’s summer house. —Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 8 July 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for London plane

• aeroplane
• appertain
• ascertain
• capitaine
• cassegrain
• cellophane
• chatelaine
• counterpane
• entertain
• gethsemane
• halothane
• hurricane