buttonwood

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Now that the buttonwood is chopped down, what's the next thing to be done It is sawn off at the proper length, square at one end and slanting at the other Why slanting Don't you see, the foundation of plank on which it rests is inclined, so the end of the leach that is down must be slantingly cut, otherwise it would not stand perpendicularly.

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  1. noun See sycamore.
  2. noun An evergreen shrub or tree (Conocarpus erectus) growing in mangrove forests of tropical America and western Africa and having alternate leathery leaves and small buttonlike heads of greenish flowers. Also called button mangrove.

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  • Buttonwood Tree acoustic, prog, folk. buttonwood. org Frank LaSasso —  New Haven Advocate: News
  • Signing an agreement to trade stocks under a buttonwood tree in an untested nation on a new continent. —  Tom Rants
  • "His tears came and kept coming, in a kind of triumph, a breakthrough, a torrent of empathy and pity for that lost young woman running past the Pennsylvania row houses, under the buttonwood trees, running to catch the trolley ... this tiny, well-dressed figure in her diminishing pocket of time." —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Native trees planted include buttonwood, live oak, cabbage palm, wax myrtle, firebush, gumbo limbo and stopper trees. —  University of Florida News
  • The 'coon had got into the buttonwood, fifty feet from the ground, where the tree had been broken off by the lightning or the wind, and where the mouth of a large cavity was distinctly visible by the light of the moon. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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