buttonwood

buttonwood englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

buttonwood englanniksi

1. (non-gloss definition)

2. The mangrove tree ((taxlink), family (taxfmt)) a tropical and subtropical species.

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1938|author=Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings|title=The Yearling|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.85632|chapter=24|page=303|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|location=New York

4. The sycamore or (vern) ((taxfmt), family (taxfmt)).

5. 1824, (w) (as Geoffrey Crayon), “Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams” in ''(w)'', Volume 2, Part 4, Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, p.(nbs)55,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011716958

Thus quietly and comfortably did this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty buttonwood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace.

6. 1835, (w), ''Journal of a Residence in America'', Paris: A. and W. Galignani, entry dated Sunday, 13(nbs) January, 1833, p.(nbs)234,https://archive.org/details/journalresidence00kembrich

When near, the trees look singularly deplorable and untidy, although at the distance, the red-brown of the faded oaks mingling with the bright, vivid, green cedars, and here and there a silver-barked buttonwood tree raising its white delicate branches from among them, produce a very agreeable and harmonious blending to the eye.

7. sycamore or (vern) ((taxlink)).