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Definition of Button mangrove
1. Noun. Evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood.
Literary usage of Button mangrove
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"... woods in an arborescent form which possesses a hard, dense, and very durable
wood. It is there known as " button mangrove." Laguncularia racemosa ..."
2. Sketch of the Forestry of West Africa with Particular Reference to Its by Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney (1887)
"button mangrove (Conocarpus erecta, Jacq.).—Small tree. Wood very hard and valuable
for posts, being durable in the ground.—' Catalogue of the Trinidad ..."
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