buttonball
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Pretty soon, just after they had passed under a buttonball tree, the ducklings heard a noise, and who should run out from under a bush but little Sister Sallie.
From Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble by Garis, Howard Roger
But for permanence the maple, the oak, the buttonball are all better.
From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy
The maple and buttonball or plane-tree were dug up by the boys in the woods the morning of Arbor Day.
From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy
Now and then a furry nose protruded from one of the apertures and sniffed the welcome scent of pine and buttonball, red and white clover, the thousand spicy odors of field and woodland.
From K by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Two trees were to be planted, one little maple near the building; another, a buttonball tree, down on the lower grade.
From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy
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