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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. 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.