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ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Acer pseudoplatanus mean? 

ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS (noun)
  The noun ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS has 1 sense:

1. Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumnplay

  Familiarity information: ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acer pseudoplatanus; great maple; scottish maple; sycamore

Hypernyms ("Acer pseudoplatanus" is a kind of...):

maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)


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