buckeye
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- noun
- /ˈbʌkaɪ/
- US
:
castaño de indias
- I saw my first red-flowered buckeye glowing in a spectacular woodland garden near Canton, Georgia.
- bottlebrush buckeye
- buckeye tree
- California buckeye
Examples
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And it's part of a California Buckeye tree, which has these, when it does flower, it has these amazing like tall flower stalks.
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I snipped all the leaves off the buckeye too.
Blog text (11) -
What's a buckeye?
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The buckeye trees swayed, the mosquitoes hummed, and the earth pulsed like a muffled drum.
Academic text (2001) -
Community volunteers have been replanting the site with native California buckeye, which is known for its beautiful clusters of flowers.
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The next morning, Ryan and Treddy ran past the bus stop and down the trail to the buckeye tree, where they admired its large blooms.
Synonyms
A large tree with showy white or red flower clusters and shiny brown inedible seeds
A large tree with hand-shaped leaves and showy flowers that make shiny brown seeds you cannot eat
A tree with scaly grey bark that loses its leaves and makes round brown nuts
A tall tree from the central United States often planted for its yellow flowers
A small bush with red flowers that grows in the southern United States
A spreading shrub from the southeastern United States with spikes of bright pink or white flowers like a bottlebrush
A small spreading shrub from the southeastern United States with bright pink flower clusters
Compounds
A spreading shrub from the southeastern United States with spikes of bright pink or white flowers like a bottlebrush
A small spreading shrub from the southeastern United States with bright pink flower clusters
- Specialized
A tree with scaly grey bark that loses its leaves and makes round brown nuts
A tall tree from the central United States often planted for its yellow flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Buckeye comes from the two English parts buck ('male deer') and eye ('eye'). The tree got this name because it makes shiny brown seeds that look like a deer's eye, so the name now refers to the whole tree.