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Buckeye   /bˈəkˌaɪ/   Listen
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Buckeye  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (AEsculus) as the horse chestnut.
The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is Aesculus glabra.
Red buckeye is Aesculus Pavia.
Small buckeye is Aesculus paviflora.
Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is Aesculus flava.
2.
A cant name for a native or resident of Ohio. (U.S.)
Buckeye State, Ohio; so called because buckeye trees abound there.





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"Buckeye" Quotes from Famous Books



... If while in the home you should perhaps get into a violent argument, never hit the other party with a broom as it was a sure indication of bad luck. If Grandad had the rheumatics, he would be sure of relief if he carried a buckeye in his pocket. ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives • Works Projects Administration
... haven't paid me, neither. You shell out, you Buckeye Pete!" spoke up a tall Kentuckian, with ...
— Down the Mother Lode • Vivia Hemphill
... concert. A few feeble, half-hearted wisps of melody on days that were especially mild were the only vocal performances they vouchsafed. To put it bluntly and truthfully, I never, during my residence of five and a half years in Kansas, heard a first-rate song sparrow trill. Nor is that all. In the Buckeye state these birds were disposed to be sociable, often selecting their dwellings near our suburban homes, visiting our dooryards, singing their blithe roundels on the ridge of the barn roof or a post of the garden fence. Not only so, but their songs were often ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
... came opposite a clump of white blossoming buckeye trees, one of the fore wheels of the dragging wagon suddenly gave way and fell off. Mr. Colver was thrown violently from the wagon's high seat into the road, among the tumbling heavy boxes and barrels. The sharp corner of one box struck Mr. ...
— Out of the Triangle • Mary E. Bamford
... gold ever found before this time was a quartz boulder from the Buckeye sluice, about 8 by 10 inches in size, and when cleaned up at the San Francisco mint the value was ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly


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