Ohio buckeye

noun

See under buckeye (def. 1).

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Origin:
1800–10, Americanism

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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noun, plural buck·eyes.

any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Aesculus, as A. glabra (Ohio buckeye), having palmate leaves, gray, scaly bark, and bell-shaped greenish-yellow flowers in upright clusters: the state tree of Ohio.

the brown nut of any of these trees.

(initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of Ohio (used as a nickname).

a butterfly, Precis lavinia, having dark-brown wings with purple or red eyespots.

Origin:
1755–65, Americanism; buck¹ stag + eye, orig. used to designate def. 1, in allusion to the look of the seed

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ohio buckeye
noun
a buckeye with scaly grey bark that is found in the central United States

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"Thank Heaven, here is not all the world. The buckeye does not grow in New England, and the mockingbird is rarely heard here. The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. Even the bison, to some extent, keeps pace with the seasons, cropping the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone. Yet we think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided. If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless."

-Henry David Thoreau