Buckeye \Buck"eye`\, n.
1. (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs
of the same genus ([AE]sculus) as the horse chestnut.
The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is [AE]sculus
glabra.
Red buckeye is [AE]. Pavia.
Small buckeye is [AE]. paviflora.
Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is [AE]. flava.
2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.]
Buckeye State, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees
abound there.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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