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English Definitions
button
N
a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
button
N
an electrical switch operated by pressing
button
N
any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
button
N
a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
button
N
a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
button
N
a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
button
N
any artifact that resembles a button
button
V
provide with buttons
button
V
fasten with buttons
N
fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets
button fern
N
Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils
N
a hole through which buttons are pushed
N
evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
N
much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William
N
small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
N
coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite
button snakeroot
N
coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master
button snakeroot
N
any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
N
evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
button up
V
refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
unimaginatively conventional
button-down
of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons
button-quail
N
small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike
buttoned-down
unimaginatively conventional
buttoned-up
(British colloquial) not inclined to conversation
buttoned-up
conservative in professional manner
buttonhole
N
a hole through which buttons are pushed
buttonhole
V
detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
N
a reinforcing looped stitch for edges, as around a buttonhole
buttonhook
N
a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole
small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
N
very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico
small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
buttony
ornamented with many buttons
English Definitions from WordNet 3.0
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