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buttonbushes

buttonbushes is the plural of buttonbush.

Meaning of buttonbush

Noun

buttonbush (plural buttonbushes)

  1. Any of the genus Cephalanthus of flowering plants in the madder family.
    1. (US) Common buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
      • The buttonbush shrub, which has little white flowers, feeds 18 species of butterflies and moths; and blueberry bushes, which support 288 species of moths and butterflies, thrive in big pots on a terrace.2008 March 6, Anne Raver, “To Feed the Birds, First Feed the Bugs”, in New York Times
  2. Any of the genus Conocarpus of two species of tropical flowering plants; a mangrove.

Phrases with buttonbushes

Questions about buttonbushes

What is buttonbushes the plural of?
Buttonbushes is the plural of buttonbush.

Words near buttonbushes in the dictionary

  1. button-ups
  2. buttonable
  3. buttonball
  4. buttonballs
  5. buttonbush
  6. buttonbushes
  7. buttondown
  8. buttoned
  9. buttoned one's lip
  10. buttoned through
  11. buttoned up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buttonbushes (page history and authors); buttonbush (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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