Crossword clues for buttonwood
buttonwood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plane \Plane\, n. [F., fr. L. platanus, Gr. ?, fr. ? broad; -- so called on account of its broad leaves and spreading form. See Place, and cf. Platane, Plantain the tree.] (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Note: The Oriental plane ( Platanus orientalis) is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane ( Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species ( Platanus racemosa).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (non-gloss definition: The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.) 2 # The mangrove tree, (taxlink Conocarpus erectus species noshow=1), family Combretaceae, a tropical and subtropical species. 3 # The American sycamore or (vern American plane tree pedia=1), ''Platanus occidentalis'', family Platanaceae. 4 # (vern California sycamore pedia=1) or (vern western sycamore pedia=1), (taxlink Platanus racemosa species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico [syn: American sycamore, American plane, Platanus occidentalis]
Wikipedia
Buttonwood or Buttonwoods may refer to:
In popular culture- "Buttonwood", column in The Economist magazine named for the Buttonwood Agreement
- Buttonwood Agreement of 17 May 1792, created the predecessor of the New York Stock Exchange
- name given to some species of trees of genus Conocarpus, e.g., Conocarpus erectus
- name given to some species of trees of genus Platanus, e.g., Platanus occidentalis
- name given to some species of trees of genus Glochidion, e.g., Glochidion ferdinandi
- Buttonwood Park Zoo, MA, USA
- Buttonwood Park Historic District, MA, USA
- Buttonwoods Beach Historic District, RI, USA
- Buttonwoods Museum, MA, USA
- Buttonwood Covered Bridge, PA, USA
Usage examples of "buttonwood".
Emily Buttonwood, a soontobedivorced, newly relocated-to-center-city friend of hers.
So if there was something that explained Emmy Buttonwood, something that pointed in another direction .
Ray Buttonwood shook his head, as if despairing, but his face remained expressionless.
Ray Buttonwood could bully his wife into relinquishing everything she held dear.
Its contents were as close to clutter as Emily Buttonwood seemed to have gotten.
Emily Buttonwood, with no sense of what was important and what was not, had been a self-stick packrat.
Watson and me cut buttonwood all around Bay Sunday and down Chatham River, run it over to Key West, three dollars a cord.
Started right out by building a fine cabin, used buttonwood posts to frame it up, had wood shutters and canvas flaps on the front windows, brought in a wood stove and a kerosene lamp and a galvanized tub for anyone that cared to wash.
We was making a fair living, salted fish, cut buttonwood, took plumes in egret breeding season, took some gator hides, some otter, done some trading with the Indins, and eased on by.
River, seven-eight acres, enough high ground for a garden, with good charcoal timber, black mangrove and buttonwood, and one of the few springs along that coast.
No old man is going to last long ricking buttonwood, and this one figured to die in the attempt.
That Sunoco at the corner of Ash and Fourth, it went down Fourth to Buttonwood, Buttonwood to Fifth, Fifth back to Ash, and then a new line beginning the other side of Ash.
A polished buttonwood desk, the largest he had ever seen, dominated the room.
High up somewhere amid the cloud of beeches and buttonwood trees, our log cabin lay hid, in a gully made by the little stream that filled our pails with a silver trickle over a staircase of shelving rock, and up there Colin was already busy with his skilled French cookery, preparing our evening meal.
By the end of the Cretaceous, modern plants such as magnolias, buttonwood trees, and the rose family decorated the landscape.