Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deciduous North American shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) having opposite leaves and spherical clusters of small white flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to the Cephalanthus occidentalis, a North American shrub, on account of its globular flower-heads. See
Cephalanthus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A shrub (
Cephalanthus occidentalis ) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. Seecapitulum .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
genus Cephalanthus offlowering plants in themadder family. - noun Any of the genus Conocarpus of two
species oftropical flowering plants.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The shrub swamps are composed of species such as buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), swamp rose (Rosa palustris), poison sumac (Rhus vernix), and silky dogwood (Cornus ammomum).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Shrub swamps are similar to forested swamps, except that shrubby vegetation such as buttonbush, willow, dogwood (Cornus sp.), and swamp rose (Rosa palustris) predominates.
Swamp 2007
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Some swamps are dominated by shrubs, such as buttonbush or smooth alder.
Swamp 2007
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But some age well, offering emergent woody shrubs, like buttonbush, which add to the diversity of food and cover.
Beaver-Dam Ducks 2006
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Wetland species occurring along the shoreline include buttonbush, dogwood, blue flag, river bulrush, cattail and arrowhead.
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio 2007
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I saw some buttonbush along the foot of the fence, its dark green leaves gleaming around the little white balls of white.
Pearl in The Mist V.C.Andrews® 1994
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I saw some buttonbush along the foot of the fence, its dark green leaves gleaming around the little white balls of white.
Pearl in The Mist V.C.Andrews® 1994
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In time, a dense thicket of Coastal Plain willows, buttonbush, southern bayberry, or other plants grows on this tossed-up “mulch.”
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In time, a dense thicket of Coastal Plain willows, buttonbush, southern bayberry, or other plants grows on this tossed-up “mulch.”
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In time, a dense thicket of Coastal Plain willows, buttonbush, southern bayberry, or other plants grows on this tossed-up “mulch.”
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
chained_bear commented on the word buttonbush
"That was as good a direction as any, he thought, and plunged into the growth of buttonbush after it."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 1062
January 29, 2010