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Definition of Buttonball
1. n. See Buttonwood.
Definition of Buttonball
1. Noun. A tree, the buttonwood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buttonball
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Buttonball
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Literary usage of Buttonball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"Sycamore, Buttonwood, But- Plane Tree (RI, Del., SC, ton ball-tree (local and
com- Kans., Nebr., la.). mon names). Water Beech (Del.). buttonball (RI, NY ..."
2. The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore by Ernest Thompson Seton (1921)
"E — PLANE TREE FAMILY SYCAMORE, PLANE TREE, buttonball OR BUTTONWOOD. (Platanus
occidentalis) One of the largest of ..."
3. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"It is called, also, sycamore, button- wood, buttonball-tree and buttonball.
The trees grow to a height of from 75 to 100 feet and to a diameter of from 3 to ..."
4. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"American Plane, buttonball, or Sycamore trees are distinguished by rough heads
or balls, which remain hanging on long stems throughout the winter. ..."
5. New York Teachers' Monographs by Sidney Marsden Fuerst (1905)
"The pistillate make a pretty little crimson ball which in the fall becomes the
round buttonball which hangs by its long, tough stem all winter, ..."
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