buttonwood
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈbʌtənˌwʊd/
- US
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- We greatly appreciate the efforts of various commercial longline fishermen and fish dealers who shared their knowledge and allowed us to examine their landings. G. Hubbell, 150 Buttonwood Dr., Key Biscayne, FL 33149.
- buttonwood tree
Examples
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And I am saying if we move very rapidly into an environment of the '60s and, God forbid, the high 50s, then you would see revolution in Japan," he said at The Economist Buttonwood conference in October 2012.
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In order to promote competition, the SEC ended the fixed schedule commissions that had been in place since the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement in 1792 and the origins of the New York Stock Exchange.
Blog text (17) -
67 years ago, 24 men met under a buttonwood tree...
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New Director at Buttonwood Park Zoo
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A new director for the Buttonwood Park Zoo has been nominated by Mayor Jon Mitchell.
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The first stock market in our country sprang up in 1792, when a group of people met under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street in New York City to trade shares of stock.
Academic text (1992) -
Students from Greater New Bedford Voke, Fairhaven High School, and area Brownies helped line the cans of food across New Bedford's Buttonwood Park.
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She wiped her eyes with the corner of her apron as she gazed out the window at the big old Buttonwood tree that seemed to stare back at her.
Fiction book (1997) -
Hugh Hendry (at the recent Buttonwood confab) observed that in the last Great Depression of the 30s, Great Britain's GDP dropped (peak to trough) 8%, while the US (the big exporter of the day) dropped 23% in one year (if memory serves).
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Under the spreading branches of the buttonwood tree, families gathered for picnics on sunny afternoons.
Synonyms
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8.6
A very large tree with broad branches and peeling bark from eastern and central North America
A very large American sycamore tree with peeling bark and a wide canopy
A very large tree from eastern and central North America with broad leaves and patchy peeling bark
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Buttonwood comes from the simple parts button and wood because the tree makes round seed balls that hang from the branches and look like little 'buttons'. So a buttonwood is a large native American tree, the same tree often called the American sycamore.