2. wood from buttonwood: the wood of a tropical mangrove tree
3. mangrove tree: a mangrove tree that yields buttonwood. Native to: American and African tropics. Latin name Conocarpus erectus.
Regional History
Buttonwood in the sense of "sycamore" is used chiefly in the North, from Massachusetts and Vermont to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and including parts of Canada. The term is virtually unknown west of the Mississippi River.
