buttonball
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 Ellen Eddy Shaw
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 Ellen Eddy Shaw
But for permanence the maple, the oak, the buttonball are all better.
From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw
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 Howard Roger Garis
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 Mary Roberts Rinehart
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