Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Platan \Plat"an\, n. [L. platanus. See {Plane} the tree.]
   [Written also {platane}.]
   The plane tree. --Tennyson.

Source : WordNet®

platan
     n : any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale
         bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and
         ball-shaped heads of fruits [syn: {plane tree}, {sycamore}]