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button mangrove

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button mangrove

–noun
a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
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button mangrove  
n.  See buttonwood.
but·ton·wood   (bŭt'n-wŏŏd')   
n.  
  1. See sycamore.

  2. An evergreen shrub or tree (Conocarpus erectus) growing in mangrove forests of tropical America and western Africa and having alternate leathery leaves and small buttonlike heads of greenish flowers. Also called button mangrove.

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