BUTTONWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buttonwood mean? 

• BUTTONWOOD (noun)
  The noun BUTTONWOOD has 1 sense:

1. very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico

  Familiarity information: BUTTONWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTTONWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American plane; American sycamore; buttonwood; Platanus occidentalis

Hypernyms ("buttonwood" is a kind of...):

plane tree; platan; sycamore (any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits)

Holonyms ("buttonwood" is a member of...):

genus Platanus; Platanus (genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore)