This name, as well as sycamore, is given, among us, to the large tree commonly called the buttonwood; but the tree here mentioned is different. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
The buttonwood agreement, under the buttonwood tree. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 30, 2008] Reference
The scene I had so recently witnessed from the buttonwood-tree had made me desperate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
GARRICK UTLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It began under a buttonwood tree in 1794. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2001] Reference
Further inland you find buttonwood mangrove, palms, swamp ferns, cattails and other freshwater vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Puerto Rico] Reference
She crossed into the mangrove wetland, with its tangled web of roots and buttonwood trees extending to the shoreline. From Wordnik.com. [Hair Raiser]
One solitary buttonwood stood close to the edge of the bank, -- so close that at high tide its brandies hung over the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
Well, the New York Stock Exchange traces its origins back to of all things a buttonwood tree, which stood at 68 Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 09, 2005] Reference
According to lore, New York stock trading can be traced to 1792, when traders signed an agreement under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [Germans in Talks to Buy Big Board] Reference
Atop New World of Finance More than 200 years after it was born at the base of a buttonwood tree, Wall Street as we have known it is ceasing to exist. From Wordnik.com. [Old-School Banks Emerge] Reference
Insider trading has been around for more than two centuries, since the New York Stock Exchange was founded under a buttonwood tree in lower Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [How an SEC Crackdown Led to Rise of 'Expert Networks'] Reference
Seven years later he resigned his post at Trinity along with Directorships in seven of America's greatest corporations and set up shop under the old buttonwood tree. From Wordnik.com. [More International Bridges] Reference
We went along the bank a little farther, and there were more trees, cherry trees, and willow trees, and buttonwood trees, and lots of nice places for us to put our hammocks. From Wordnik.com. [W. A. G.'s Tale] Reference
A fourth species, the buttonwood mangrove (Conocarpus erectus) is regarded as an "associate" rather than a "true" mangrove; it appears in mangrove stands located in arid zones. From Wordnik.com. [Coastal Venezuelan mangroves] Reference
Falcon's Nest in the buttonwood over on the Strail?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Do It] Reference
The flood had cut the bank from under a great buttonwood. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower of the Chapdelaines] Reference
"Gracious! what if that was the big buttonwood!" cried Randy. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
buttonwood Tree acoustic, prog, folk. buttonwood. org Frank LaSasso. From Wordnik.com. [New Haven Advocate: News] Reference
Ned's paddle put it in line with the big buttonwood tree on the right shore. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
I was determined to get the 'coons out of the buttonwood, cost what it might. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
In front of it was a green lawn, adorned with several large buttonwood trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army A Story of the Great Rebellion] Reference
One pretty well-grown buttonwood-tree aspires upward above the roofs of the houses. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
Obadiah slipped around to the further side of the buttonwood tree before the tavern. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke of Stockbridge] Reference
The identical buttonwood with its great parasite was before us, the dog barking at its foot!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
Most of these winged people seemed to have their domicile in a robust and healthy buttonwood-tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
Signing an agreement to trade stocks under a buttonwood tree in an untested nation on a new continent. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Rants] Reference
Then in a whisper he added to Kitty; "If you dare to say 'buttonwood,' Miss Bartlett, you and I will quarrel.". From Wordnik.com. [In the Midst of Alarms] Reference
Native trees planted include buttonwood, live oak, cabbage palm, wax myrtle, firebush, gumbo limbo and stopper trees. From Wordnik.com. [University of Florida News] Reference
The sailors sprang upon the land, carrying out the strong warps, and fastening us to the trunks of the buttonwood-trees. From Wordnik.com. [My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field] Reference
The fruit of the buttonwood, or sycamore, which grows along streams, is in the form of balls an inch and a half in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [Seed Dispersal] Reference
We are surrounded by silver buttonwood, mangrove thickets, flowering plants, and a huge coconut tree about to drop its fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Film Gecko] Reference
As the vivid light faded away Ned ran back to the buttonwood tree, and watched the blurred shape of the boat as it came down the channel. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
To the extreme of my astonishment, and I fancy to the very extreme of Abe's terror, we again found ourselves at the foot of the buttonwood. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
Brokers invaded 140 years later, meeting under that famous buttonwood tree (. From Wordnik.com. [On Wall Street, Tourists and Condos Supplant Titans of Yore] Reference
"The buttonwood happens to be exactly suited to the purpose. From Wordnik.com. [In the Midst of Alarms] Reference
Coccoloba uvifera; buttonwood, Conocarpus erectus) that make up the majority of perching habitat used by anoles. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
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