Buttonwood

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Buttonwood has 1 sense

buttonwood(n = noun.plant) american plane, american sycamore, platanus occidentalis - very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico; Array

is a member of genus platanus, platanus

is a kind of plane tree, platan, sycamore

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Buttonwood, n.

The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is Platanus racemosa. [1913 Webster]

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