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Definition of Button tree

Button tree
Button But"ton, n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See Butt an end.] 1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. 2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. 3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak. 4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. 5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. Button shell (Zo["o]l.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

Meaning of Button tree from wikipedia

- Rhode Island Buttonwoods Museum, a museum in Haverhill, M****achusetts Button wood, plants Buttonbush, plants This disambiguation page lists articles...
- companion and close friend for Hoot. In the series, she lives in a "Purple Button Tree" and has a toy cat called Gigglepaws, who intimidates Hoot as he is terrified...
- fruit-bearing species, such as the button mangosteen (G. prainiana) and the charichuelo (G. madruno). A tropical tree, the mangosteen must be grown in consistently...
- store near the tree. This tree is listed as California Historical Landmark No. 492. This landmark is now known as the Buttonwillow Tree. California Historical...
- well-supported phylogeny of the Charadriiform birds congruent with the nuclear RAG-1 tree". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 39 (3): 657–67. doi:10.1016/j.ympev...
- Button Moon is a British children's television programme broadcast from 8 December 1980 to 1 December 1988 in the United Kingdom on ITV network. Thames...
- ghost: a caveman who lived on the land Button House now occupies and was killed when lightning struck a tree he was using to hide from a bear. He can...
- use items to heal damage, or flee from battle if the fight is too tough. Button pressing by the player must be timed when making attacks, or when dodging/counterattacking...
- to prominence in 1960 when his record album of comedic monologues, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, became a bestseller and reached number one on...
- visual Start button. With the exception of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the Start button can be found on the taskbar. The Start button on Windows...