buttonwood
美洲悬铃木
词形变化
释义与例句
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The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
The mangrove tree (Conocarpus erectus, family Combretaceae) a tropical and subtropical species.
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The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
The American sycamore or American plane tree (Platanus occidentalis, family Platanaceae).
1824, Washington Irving (as Geoffrey Crayon), “Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams” in Tales of a Traveller, Volume 2, Part 4, Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, p. 55, Thus quietly and comfortably did this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty buttonwood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace.
1835, Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence in America, Paris: A. and W. Galignani, entry dated Sunday, 13 January, 1833, p. 234, When near, the trees look singularly deplorable and untidy, although at the distance, the red-brown of the faded oaks mingling with the bright, vivid, green cedars, and here and there a silver-barked buttonwood tree raising its white delicate branches from among them, produce a very agreeable and harmonious blending to the eye.
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The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
California sycamore or western sycamore (Platanus racemosa).
词汇关系
同义词 1
上位词 3
词源
From button + wood.
来源：wiktionary