Cottonwood

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A town in Houston County, Alabama.
  3. 3
    A city in Yavapai County, Arizona.
  4. 4
    A census-designated place in Shasta County, California.
  5. 5
    A ghost town in Yolo County, California.
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  1. 6
    A former census-designated place and unincorporated community in Douglas County, Colorado, mostly now incorporated into the town of Parker.
  2. 7
    An unincorporated community in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia, United States.
  3. 8
    A city in Idaho County, Idaho.
  4. 9
    A city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
  5. 10
    A small unincorporated community in Coal County, Oklahoma.
  6. 11
    An unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
  7. 12
    A tiny town in Jackson County, South Dakota.
  8. 13
    An unincorporated community in Callahan County, Texas.
  9. 14
    A city in Kaufman County, Texas.
Noun
  1. 1
    A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.

    "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."

  2. 2
    American basswood of the Allegheny region wordnet
  3. 3
    Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
  4. 4
    any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed wordnet
  5. 5
    A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
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  1. 6
    A tree of species Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.

    "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."

  2. 7
    Several species of trees endemic to New Zealand.

Etymology

From cotton + wood.

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