Crossword-Solution: BUTTONWOOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “BUTTONWOOD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named | 1 answer |
| Sycamore tree | 2 answers |
| white mangrove | 3 answers |
| sycamore | 4 answers |
| timber tree | 43 answers |
| Tree. | 109 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with BUTTONWOOD (5)
Buttonwood Street, where he spent the first ten years of his life, was a lovely place for a boy to live.
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.
The caterpillar spun its winding sheet, dangled in it from the great buttonwood tree before the house, turned into a moth, fluttered with the last sunshine of summer, and disappeared; and finally the leaves of the buttonwood tree turned yellow, then brown, then rustled one by one to the ground, and whirling about in little eddies of wind and dust, whispered that winter was at hand.
Together with a due contemplation of the fruit-trees, the grapevines, the buttonwood-tree, the cat, the birds, and many other particulars, I failed not to study the row of fashionable dwellings to which all these appertained.
Pliny speaks of the plane tree, our sycamore or buttonwood, as excellent, because of the horizontal branches which, like window blinds, allow free passage of the breezes while intercepting the heat of the sun.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2014).