buttonbush (plural buttonbushes)
Any of the genus Cephalanthus of flowering plants in the madder family.
(US) Cephalanthus occidentalis, the common buttonbush
Any of the genus Conocarpus of two species of tropical flowering plants; a mangrove.
• (Cephalanthus): common buttonbush, Mexican buttonbush
Source: Wiktionary
But"ton*bush`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; - - so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
