cottonwood

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cottonwood^¹

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From cotton + wood.

noun cottonwoods

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

Cottonwood^²

proper noun

A surname.
A town in Houston County, Alabama.
A city in Yavapai County, Arizona.
A census-designated place in Shasta County, California.
A ghost town in Yolo County, California.
A former census-designated place and unincorporated community in Douglas County, Colorado, mostly now incorporated into the town of Parker.
An unincorporated community in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia.
A city in Idaho County, Idaho.
A city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
A small unincorporated community in Coal County, Oklahoma.
An unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
A tiny town in Jackson County, South Dakota.
An unincorporated community in Callahan County, Texas.
A city in Kaufman County, Texas.

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noun tree from Populus with fluffy catkins

Español	álamo
Deutsch	Pappel
Русский	тополь topolʹ

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@misc{cottonwood_2026,
  title = {cottonwood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cottonwood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}