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Meaning of 'buttonwood' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Buttonwood [ n.]
- 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 P. racemosa.

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