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Buttonwood

noun

Very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico. Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis.

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"Buttonwood" Quotes from Famous Books

... up. The right tree, in the opinion of Henry Hicks (in Country Life in America), is the American elm, which ought to be called the umbrella tree. Pliny speaks of the plane tree, our sycamore or buttonwood, as excellent, because of the horizontal branches which, like window blinds, allow free passage of the breezes while intercepting the heat ...

— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

... rapidly to Dover—a very mean, old town—but there lost about an hour in the transfer of our baggage to the steamboat, which was one of those long, black, narrow scow contrivances, about equal to a buttonwood "dug-out," which England appears to delight in. They would not be tolerated as ferry-boats on any of our Western rivers, yet they are made to answer for the conveyance of Mails and Passengers across an arm of the sea on the most important route in Europe. In ...

— Glances at Europe - In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, - Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. • Horace Greeley

Words linked to "Buttonwood" : genus Platanus, sycamore, platan, Platanus, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, plane tree, American plane