Buttonwood

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.; The mangrove tree (Conocarpus erectus, family Combretaceae) a tropical and subtropical species.

    "On the opposite bank was a fresh ’gator wallow. The mud had been packed smooth where they turned and rolled their hard bodies. Penny dropped to his haunches behind a buttonwood bush."

  2. 2
    very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico wordnet
  3. 3
    The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.; The American sycamore or American plane tree (Platanus occidentalis, family Platanaceae).

    "1824, Washington Irving (as Geoffrey Crayon), “Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams” in Tales of a Traveller, Volume 2, Part 4, Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, p. 55, Thus quietly and comfortably did this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty buttonwood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace."

  4. 4
    The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.; California sycamore or western sycamore (Platanus racemosa).

Etymology

From button + wood.

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