cottonwood
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See also: Cottonwood
Etymology
Noun
cottonwood (plural cottonwoods)
- A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
- 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.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
- […] 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.
- Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
- A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
- A tree of species Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- 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.
Derived terms
- balsam cottonwood (Populus balsamifera)
- black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa)
- coastal cottonwood, coast cottonwood (Talipariti tiliaceum)
- cottonwood borer (Plectrodera scalator)
- cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum)
- cottonwood leaf beetle (Chrysomela scripta)
- cottonwood leaf-mining beetle (Zeugophora scutellaris)
- eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
- Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii)
- Great Plains cottonwood (Populus sargentii)
- green cottonwood (Talipariti tiliaceum)
- lanceleaf cottonwood (Populus × acuminata)
- mountain cottonwood (Populus angustifolia)
- narrowleaf cottonwood (Populus angustifolia)
- northern cottonwood (Bombax ceiba)
- plains cottonwood (Populus sargentii)
- river cottonwood (Populus heterophylla)
- swamp cottonwood (Populus heterophylla)
- willow cottonwood (Populus angustifolia)
- Wislizenus's cottonwood (Populus wislizenii)
- yellow cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
Translations
tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
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References
cottonwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Populus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Populus sect. Aigeiros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Talipariti tiliaceum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- cottonwood at USDA Plants database
- “* cottonwood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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