Bŭck'eye, n.

n. 1. (Bot.) A tree, the Æsculus flava (Pavia flava, Decand.), indigenous in the Western States. Æsculus glabra is the fetid or Ohio buckeye, and Æsculus paria the red buckeye. 2. An inhabitant of Ohio; — so called in allusion to the abundance of buckeye trees in that State, which is often called the Buckeye State. [Cant, U. S.]