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buttonwood
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
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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