buttonwood (redirected from Buttonwood tree)

but·ton·wood  (btn-wd)

n.

1. See sycamore.

2. An evergreen shrub or tree (Conocarpus erectus) growing in mangrove forests of tropical America and western Africa and having alternate leathery leaves and small buttonlike heads of greenish flowers. Also called button mangrove.

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buttonwood - very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis genus Platanus, Platanus - genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore plane tree, platan, sycamore - any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits