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buttonwood

English

Etymology

button +? wood

Noun

buttonwood (plural buttonwoods)

  1. The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
    1. The mangrove tree (Conocarpus erectus, family Combretaceae) a tropical and subtropical species.
      • 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 24, p. 303,[1]
        On the opposite bank was a fresh ’gator wallow. The mud had been packed smooth where they turned and rolled their hard bodies. Penny dropped to his haunches behind a buttonwood bush.
    2. The American sycamore or American plane tree (Platanus occidentalis, family Platanaceae).
      • 1824, Washington Irving (as Geoffrey Crayon), “Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams” in Tales of a Traveller, Volume 2, Part 4, Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, p. 55,[2]
        Thus quietly and comfortably did this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty buttonwood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace.
      • 1835, Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence in America, Paris: A. and W. Galignani, entry dated Sunday, 13  January, 1833, p. 234,[3]
        When near, the trees look singularly deplorable and untidy, although at the distance, the red-brown of the faded oaks mingling with the bright, vivid, green cedars, and here and there a silver-barked buttonwood tree raising its white delicate branches from among them, produce a very agreeable and harmonious blending to the eye.
    3. California sycamore or western sycamore (Platanus racemosa).

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See also

  • Conocarpus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • American sycamore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • California sycamore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Conocarpus erectus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Platanus occidentalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Platanus racemosa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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cottonwood

English

Etymology

cotton +? wood

Noun

cottonwood (plural cottonwoods)

  1. A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
    • […] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
  2. Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
  3. A flowering shrub or tree, the cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), in the mallow family.
  4. A tree, Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.

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References

  • cottonwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Populus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Populus sect. Aigeiros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Talipariti tiliaceum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • cottonwood at USDA Plants database

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