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noun(but-ton-wood)plane:4
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noun(but-ton-wood)airplane
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noun(but-ton-wood)one of the main supporting surfaces of an airplane
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noun(but-ton-wood)a surface in which if any two points are chosen a straight line joining them lies wholly in that surface
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noun(but-ton-wood)a tool for smoothing or shaping a wood surface
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noun(but-ton-wood)any of a genus (Platanus of the family Platanaceae, the plane-tree family) of chiefly deciduous trees with large palmately lobed leaves, flowers in globose heads, and usually scaling bark —called also buttonwood, plane tree, sycamore