BUTTON TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does button tree mean? 

• BUTTON TREE (noun)
  The noun BUTTON TREE has 1 sense:

1. evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood

  Familiarity information: BUTTON TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTTON TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

button mangrove; button tree; Conocarpus erectus

Hypernyms ("button tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)