Word Meanings - BUTTONWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

Related words: (words related to BUTTONWOOD)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• NAMELESSLY
  In a nameless manner.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• NAMABLE
  Capable of being named.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• NAMELESS
  1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• SYCAMORE
  A large tree allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture. The American plane tree, or buttonwood. A large European species of maple .
• NAMER
  One who names, or calls by name.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.