Definitionn. very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
Last update: October 25, 2015
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On the higher elevations the trees are mostly white pine, yellow pine and hemlock, but in the valleys and lower levels are oaks, hickories, maples, elms, birches, locusts, willows, spruces, gums, buckeyes, the chestnut, black walnut, butternut, cedar, ash, linden, poplar, buttonwood, hornbeam, holly, catalpa, magnolia, tulip-tree, Kentucky coffee-tree, sassafras, wild cherry, pawpaw, crab-apple and other species. [Please select]
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In front of it was a green lawn, adorned with several large buttonwood trees. [Please select]
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_] X THE MAMMOTH "_His legs were as thick as the bole of the beech, His tusks as the buttonwood white, While his lithe trunk wound like a sapling around An oak in the whirlwind's might." [Please select]
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For many minutes we waited, but no life was visible about the buttonwood bushes which held the nests--no old birds like fragments of fleecy clouds came floating in over the dark canopy of cypress trees. [Please select]
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