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