buttonwood
pronunciation
How to pronounce buttonwood in British English:
UK ['bʌtnwʊd]
How to pronounce buttonwood in American English:
US ['bʌtnwʊd]
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- Noun:
- very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
Word Origin
- buttonwood (n.)
- also button-wood, "North American plane tree," 1690s, from button (n.) + wood (n.). So called for their characteristic round fruit.
Example
- 1. The one forecast buttonwood can safely make for 2008 is that the consensus will prove to be wrong .
- 2. The qe programmes have been bolder than japan 's and corporate-bond yields have indeed fallen ( see buttonwood ) .
- 3. Nevertheless , buttonwood urges extreme caution in relying on their claims .
- 4. It is both as a sign of chinese demand and of japanese reflation that buttonwood is interested in the price of h beams in tokyo .
- 5. Since dealers first gathered in the fug of london 's coffee houses and under the fabled buttonwood tree in lower manhattan , the world 's great financial centres have built their capital markets and reputations over centuries , one trade at a time .