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Cottonwood
name, noun
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Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A town in Houston County, Alabama.
- 3 A city in Yavapai County, Arizona.
- 4 A census-designated place in Shasta County, California.
- 5 A ghost town in Yolo County, California.
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- 6 A former census-designated place and unincorporated community in Douglas County, Colorado, mostly now incorporated into the town of Parker.
- 7 An unincorporated community in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia, United States.
- 8 A city in Idaho County, Idaho.
- 9 A city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
- 10 A small unincorporated community in Coal County, Oklahoma.
- 11 An unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
- 12 A tiny town in Jackson County, South Dakota.
- 13 An unincorporated community in Callahan County, Texas.
- 14 A city in Kaufman County, Texas.
Noun
- 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 American basswood of the Allegheny region wordnet
- 3 Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
- 4 any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed wordnet
- 5 A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
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- 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."
- 7 Several species of trees endemic to New Zealand.
Etymology
From cotton + wood.
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