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buttonbush

buttonbush

8.6
A shrub or small tree with round clusters of small white flowers that grows near water
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : arbusto botón

Examples

  • Buttonbush is a common woody plant. Floodplain swamp.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Buttonbush grows in the wettest depressions.

    Academic text (1998)

  • We jumped the ditch and scratched through the buttonbush and bull tongues.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The garden features buttonbush, which attracts bees and butterflies with its fragrant white blooms.

  • In the wetland areas, buttonbush thrives, creating a lovely habitat for various wildlife.

  • Buttonbush is a beautiful shrub that produces round clusters of small white flowers along the riverbank.

Surface Forms

buttonbush singular
buttonbushes plural

Morphology

buttonbush = button + bush (transparent) = button + bush

The name directly refers to a shrub ('bush') with round flower clusters resembling 'buttons', so the sense is transparently built from its components.

Etymology

The word buttonbush combines button and bush: its round clusters of small white flowers look like little 'buttons' on a 'bush', and it often grows near water, so the name helps you picture the shrub.