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Buckeye   /bˈəkˌaɪ/   Listen
Buckeye

noun
1.
The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut.  Synonyms: conker, horse chestnut.
2.
Tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds.  Synonyms: Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut.
3.
A native or resident of Ohio.  Synonym: Ohioan.



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"Buckeye" Quotes from Famous Books



... you just go down to Spring-in-rock and stay there. Them folks won't be here tell midnight. I'll come fer you at nine with my roan colt, and I'll set you down over on the big road on Buckeye Run. Then you can git on the mail-wagon that passes there about five o'clock in the mornin', and go over to Jackson County and keep shady till we want you to face the enemy and to swear agin some folks. And then well send ...
— The Hoosier Schoolmaster - A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana • Edward Eggleston

... the road. As they approached, they at once recognized the venerable "Jenny" and the two-wheeled cart as the property of Tennessee's Partner—used by him in carrying dirt from his claim; and a few paces distant the owner of the equipage himself, sitting under a buckeye tree, wiping the perspiration from his glowing face. In answer to an inquiry, he said he had come for the body of the "diseased," "if it was all the same to the committee." He didn't wish to "hurry anything"; he could "wait." He was not working that day; and when the gentlemen were done ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte



Words linked to "Buckeye" :   genus Aesculus, seed, American, Aesculus, flowering tree, angiospermous tree



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