Another name for the buttonball or sycamore tree, emphasizing that it is made of wood.
Compound of 'button' and 'wood,' literally describing the wood from the tree that produces button-like seed balls.
Buttonwood is the wood itself, while buttonball emphasizes the seed, showing how English creates synonyms by highlighting different features—it's the same tree, just described from different angles.
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