单词 | buttonwood |
释义 | > as lemmasbuttonwood buttonwood n. (a) (chiefly U.S.) the buttonball, Platanus occidentalis (more fully buttonwood tree); (b) (more fully buttonwood mangrove) the button mangrove, Conocarpus erectus; (c) (chiefly U.S.) the buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidentalis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > plane-trees > [noun] platanusOE planea1382 platana1382 plane treea1425 platan treea1425 plantain1535 plane1562 dwarf plane tree1578 chenar1638 buttonwood1670 platanus tree1670 Norway maple1731 water beech1735 American plane1781 sycamore1814 buttonball1818 London plane1860 sycamore-tree1872 1670 W. Dyer To Kings most Excellent Majesty 2 The Countrey every where well furnished with..Hills, and fruitful valleys: where growes..Willow, Buttonwood, Alder, Poplar and Sassafras. 1737 Abridgem. Acts Assembly Bermuda sig. B2v/1 in Acts Assembly Bermuda An Act to prevent the Destruction of Button Wood. 1752 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 6) at Cephalanthus Cephalanthus, Button-wood. 1766 J. Adams Diary 4 May (1961) I. 312 I saw..a likely young Button Wood Tree, lately planted, on the Triangle made by the Three Roads. 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 122 The sycamore is the button wood of New England. 1877 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 49 40 Tincture and fluid extract of Buttonwood (Cephalanthus occidentalis). 1888 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 1 93 The Mangrove belt which encircles the island is composed chiefly of three species of tree-like shrubs, the Black Mangrove (Avizennia nitida), the White Mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), and the Buttonwood (Conocarpus erecta). 1906 Harper's Mag. Mar. 560 She watched him..come back,..walking very slowly under the mottled branches of the buttonwoods. 1974 Draft Environmental Statem. Surry Power Station Units 3 & 4 (typescript, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) ii. 20 The transition zone between marsh and woodland is dominated by wax myrtle..and buttonwood. 1998 Federal News Service (Nexis) 19 May If the owner of Pumpkin Key wishes to cut down buttonwood mangroves to make room for houses, he is free to do so. 2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 21 Dec. (Eastern ed.) a9 The New York Stock Exchange started under a buttonwood tree in lower Manhattan. < as lemmas |
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