buttonwood
Americannoun
noun
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Also called: buttonball. a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis See plane tree
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a small West Indian tree, Conocarpus erectus , with button-like fruits and heavy hard compact wood: family Combretaceae
Etymology
Origin of buttonwood
Example Sentences
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Named for a favorite buttonwood tree on Wall Street, the agreement pledged the signers to trade only with one another, and at set rates.
From Barron's
Named for a favorite buttonwood tree on Wall Street, the agreement pledged the signers to trade only with one another, and at set rates.
From Barron's
Technology has transformed markets from the days when brokers gathered under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street to the digital age.
From Barron's
Since that document was signed on May 17, 1792, by 24 stockbrokers who often conducted business under a buttonwood tree outside 68 Wall St., the financial markets have eagerly embraced new technologies.
But before ripping the trees out, they planted replacement conocarpus trees, or buttonwoods, nearby and gave them time to grow.
From Washington Post
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