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cottonwood

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As a noun, cottonwood means a tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.

Meanings of cottonwood

6 meanings

noun

  1. A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.

  2. Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus

  3. A flowering shrub or tree, the cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), in the mallow family.

  4. A tree, Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.

  5. Any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seedplant

  6. American basswood of the Allegheny regionplant

    Similar: white basswood, Tilia heterophylla

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: American basswood of the Allegheny region
white basswoodTilia heterophylla

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