Cottonwood

Quick meaning: Cottonwood is a noun meaning A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
2. A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
3. A tree of species Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.
4. Several species of trees endemic to New Zealand.

Example Sentences

The leaves of a small bush echoed the yellow cottonwoods that are so characteristic of the Rio Grande Valley in late fall.

[…] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.

There is no break in the trees. That is the wonder and the mystery of it. There where you see light-green rushes instead of dark-green undergrowth, there between the great cotton woods, that is my private gate into the unknown.

Word Forms

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