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- noun Plural form of
planetree .
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Examples
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As we advance through noble elms and planetrees, crowds of _contadini_ line the way, beggars scream from the banks, donkeys bray, _carretti_ rattle along, until at last we arrive at a long meadow which seems alive and crumbling with gayly dressed figures that are moving to and fro as thick as ants upon an ant-hill.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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a merry song as sounds from the thick branches of the planetrees.
What Sami Sings with the Birds Johanna Spyri 1864
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