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noun. An evergreen shrub or tree (Conocarpus erectus) of coastal wetlands of tropical America and western Africa, having alternate leathery leaves and small buttonlike heads of greenish flowers.

noun. A common name in the West Indies of a low combreta-ceous tree, Conocarpus erecta, with very heavy, hard, and compact wood.

noun. See buttonball.

noun. The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is Platanus racemosa.

noun. The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.

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

"This name, as well as sycamore, is given, among us, to the large tree commonly called the buttonwood; but the tree here mentioned is different."

plane tree  platan  sycamore  

barkless  bith  black-spotted  broomy  chinaberry  

buttonball tree  sycamore