cottonwood

See also: Cottonwood

English

the seeds of a cottonwood ()

Narrowleaf cottonwoods,

Etymology

cotton +‎ wood

Noun

cottonwood (plural cottonwoods)

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

2. , a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
3. cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family

Translations

tree from Populus with fluffy catkins

• Apache:

  Western Apache: bitʼiis

• Cheyenne: xamaehoohtsêstse
• German: Pappel (de) f
• Manx: pobbyl m
• Maori: tauhinu
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• Navajo: tʼiis
• Spanish: álamo (es) m
• Taos: túłoną

Hibiscus tiliaceus

• Hawaiian: hau
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: baru (ms)

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