buttonwood

== English == === Etymology === From button +‎ wood. === Noun === buttonwood (plural buttonwoods) The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree. The mangrove tree (Conocarpus erectus, family Combretaceae) a tropical and subtropical species. The American sycamore or American plane tree (Platanus occidentalis, family Platanaceae). 1824, Washington Irving (as Geoffrey Crayon), “Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams” in Tales of a Traveller, Volume 2, Part 4, Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, p. 55,[2] Thus quietly and comfortably did this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty buttonwood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace. 1835, Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence in America, Paris: A. and W. Galignani, entry dated Sunday, 13 January, 1833, p. 234,[3] When near, the trees look singularly deplorable and untidy, although at the distance, the red-brown of the faded oaks mingling with the bright, vivid, green cedars, and here and there a silver-barked buttonwood tree raising its white delicate branches from among them, produce a very agreeable and harmonious blending to the eye. California sycamore or western sycamore (Platanus racemosa). ==== Derived terms ==== Florida buttonwood Harvey's buttonwood swamp buttonwood ==== Translations ==== === See also === Conocarpus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia American sycamore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia California sycamore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Conocarpus erectus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Platanus occidentalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Platanus racemosa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies