Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Buckeye"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Buckeye \Buck"eye`\, n.
1. (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs
of the same genus ({[AE]sculus}) as the horse chestnut.
{The Ohio buckeye}, or {Fetid buckeye}, is {[AE]sculus
glabra}.
{Red buckeye} is {[AE]. Pavia}.
{Small buckeye} is {[AE]. paviflora}.
{Sweet buckeye}, or {Yellow buckeye}, is {[AE]. flava}.
2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.]
{Buckeye State}, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees
abound there.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
buckeye
n 1: the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut [syn: {horse
chestnut}, {conker}]
2: tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to
red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds [syn: {horse
chestnut}, {Aesculus hippocastanum}]
3: a resident of Ohio [syn: {Ohioan}, {Buckeye}]
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