buckeye
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- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 7
Definition of buckeye
23 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)Any of several species of trees of the genus Aesculus.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)Any of several species of trees of the genus Aesculus.
- (countable, uncountable)Any of several species of trees of the genus Aesculus.
- (countable, uncountable)Any of several species of the related Mexican buckeye (genus Ungnadia).
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(countable, uncountable)Seed or fruit of these plants.
“Now there were long periods when he heard nothing except the wind in the trees and the plop of buckeyes on the earth.”
- (US, countable, slang, uncountable)A native or resident of the American state of Ohio.
- (countable, uncountable)Any of species Junonia coenia of butterflies; a common buckeye.
- (US, countable, uncountable)A confection made from peanut butter fudge partially dipped in chocolate to leave a circle of peanut butter visible, supposed to resemble the nut of the Ohio buckeye tree.
- A native or resident of the American states of Ohio or Arizona.
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Etymology
The name stems from Native Americans, who called the nut "hetuck," which means "buck eye" (because the markings on the nut resemble the eye of a deer).
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