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1. (n.) buttonwood
Chiefly Eastern New Eng.
Etymology: (1665–75, Amer.)
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1. (noun) American sycamore, American plane, buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis
very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
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1. (noun) buttonwood
the Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa
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