buttonwood

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico

From button + wood.

Looking from the old-fashioned windows of Mrs. Gouverneur's front parlor, he praised the beauty of the winter scene, and admired especially the spotted boles of the great buttonwoods in Washington Square. — The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York, Edward Eggleston
In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prairie dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor’s to gossip. — Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau

American sycamore, American plane, Platanus occidentalis

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