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Definition of Buckeyes
1. buckeye [n] - See also: buckeye
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buckeyes
Literary usage of Buckeyes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The buckeyes all bunch their leaflets at the end of the leaf stem. They are
palmately compound, while those of the ash are pinnately compound. ..."
2. Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840 by William Cooper Howells (1895)
"... Meeting—An Epidemic of Typhoid—A Religious Enthusiast—Hunting Ginseng—Bonfires
and buckeyes. Though a small boy, and disposed to be adaptable, ..."
3. Trees that Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the by Julia Ellen Rogers (1909)
"THE HORSE-CHESTNUT AND THE buckeyes When an English lad speaks of a chestnut, he
means the horse-chestnut, and the chances are that he does not know ..."
4. Notes and Comments on Industrial, Economic, Political and Historical Subjects by James Moore Swank (1897)
"buckeyes IN AMERICAN HISTORY. OHIO, the first of the States north of the Ohio
river to be admitted into the Union, has furnished the country with a greater ..."
5. Traditions of the Caddo: Collected Under the Auspices of the Carnegie by George Amos Dorsey (1905)
"COYOTE'S EYES ARE REPLACED BY buckeyes.* One time Coyote was out hunting something
to eat, and on his way he heard a noise and he said to himself, ..."
6. The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896 by William Jennings Bryan (1896)
"AMONG THE buckeyes AND HOOSIERS. MONDAY, October 19, and the day following were
spent in Ohio. Starting from Detroit in the night, we reached Toledo about ..."
7. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... except the buckeyes : — to it may be appended the Bladder-nut and Maple Families.
... buckeyes ..."
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