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Buttonwood

noun
1.
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



... illuminated by not a few sparrows and other birds, which spread their wings, and flitted and fluttered, and alighted now here, now there, and busily scratched their food out of the wormy earth. Most of these winged people seemed to have their domicile in a robust and healthy buttonwood-tree. It aspired upward, high above the roofs of the houses, and spread a dense head of foliage half across ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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


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