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Buckeye  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (AEsculus) as the horse chestnut.
The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is Aesculus glabra.
Red buckeye is Aesculus Pavia.
Small buckeye is Aesculus paviflora.
Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is Aesculus flava.
2.
A cant name for a native or resident of Ohio. (U.S.)
Buckeye State, Ohio; so called because buckeye trees abound there.





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"Buckeye" Quotes from Famous Books



... tooth on a faded velvet string; Pat, a penny which happened to be of the date of her birth year (the presence of the penny was regarded by all as a most encouraging sign); Eshwell loaned her a miniature silver bug he wore on his watch chain; Burlingham's contribution was a large buckeye——"Ever since I've had that, I've never been without at least the price of a ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... at many of our inventions and appreciated matches, he took great pride in his ability to make fire with two sticks of buckeye. This he could do in less than two minutes by twirling one ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope
... trees with large, winter buds, such as the horsechestnut (Fig. 92), hickory, lilac, etc. On removing the hard, scale leaves, the delicate, young leaves, and often the flowers, may be found within the bud. If we examine a young shoot of lilac or buckeye, just as the leaves are expanding in the spring, a complete series of forms may be seen from the simple, external scales, through immediate forms, to the complete foliage leaf. The veins of the leaves are almost always much-branched, the veins ...
— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell


Words linked to "Buckeye" :   genus Aesculus, angiospermous tree, flowering tree, particolored buckeye, seed, horse chestnut, Aesculus, Ohioan, dwarf buckeye, conker, bottlebrush buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum, red buckeye, American, sweet buckeye


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