Meaning of chinar | Babel Free

Definitions

The tree Platanus orientalis, the oriental plane.

Examples

“The chinar, or Oriental plane tree, has been cultivated in Persia from the earliest period; and Evelyn states that "a worthy knight, who staid at Ispahan when that famous city was infected with a raging pestilence, told" him "that, since they have planted a greater number of these noble treees about it, the plague has not come nigh their dwellings."”

“The lakes, the gardens, the chinars golden in autumn, the Himalayas all around.”

“I too felt that the government has not made judicious use of its powers to curb the felling of chinars.”

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