buttonwood

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsAmerican sycamoreAmerican planePlatanus occidentalis

   Broaderplane tree

   Part ofPlatanus

Other forms of buttonwood

plural

buttonwoods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about buttonwood

What does buttonwood mean?

buttonwood means "very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico".

How many syllables are in buttonwood?

buttonwood has 3 syllables: but-ton-wood. The stress falls on "but".

What is another word for buttonwood?

Close synonyms include American sycamore, American plane, Platanus occidentalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buttonwood a common word?

buttonwood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.