buttonbush
nounEtymology From button + bush.
1
Any of the genus Cephalanthus of flowering plants in the madder family.
2
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:
3
Any of the genus Conocarpus of two species of tropical flowering plants; a mangrove.
- Hyponyms
- common buttonbush, Mexican buttonbush