buttonwood
/buht-n-wood/US // ˈbʌt nˌwʊd //UK // (ˈbʌtənˌwʊd) //
纽扣木,纽扣林,纽扣木业,纽扣木头
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Chiefly Eastern New England. sycamore.
Examples
Buyers and sellers would meet, first under a Buttonwood tree in 1792, and then on the floors, to trade stocks.
The identical buttonwood with its great parasite was before us, the dog barking at its foot!
The fruit of the buttonwood, or sycamore, which grows along streams, is in the form of balls an inch and a half in diameter.
One solitary buttonwood stood close to the edge of the bank,—so close that at high tide its brandies hung over the water.
In front of it was a green lawn, adorned with several large buttonwood trees.
An axillary bud, concealed under the hollowed base of the leaf-stalk, in Buttonwood or Plane-tree.
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