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cottonwood

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cottonwood: see willow willow, common name for some members of the Salicaceae, a family of deciduous trees and shrubs of worldwide distribution, especially abundant from north temperate to arctic areas.
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Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
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Any of several fast-growing North American trees of the genus Populus. Members of the willow family, cottonwoods have heart-shaped, toothed leaves and cottony seeds. The dangling leaves clatter in the wind. The eastern cottonwood (P. deltoides) has thick glossy leaves. Carolina poplar (P. angulata) and P. eugenei may be natural hybrids between P. deltoides and the Eurasian black poplar (P. nigra). The Alamo, or Fremont cottonwood (P. fremontii), is the tallest of the group. See also poplar.


cottonwood [′kät·ən‚wu̇d]
(botany)
Any of several poplar trees(Populus)having hairy, encapsulated fruit.


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When the first streak of day began to show we tied up to a towhead in a big bend on the Illinois side, and hacked off cottonwood branches with the hatchet, and covered up the raft with them so she looked like there had been a cave-in in the bank there.
She pointed into the gold cottonwood tree behind whose top we stood and said again, `What name?
The rivers, in general, were skirted with willows and bitter cottonwood trees, and the prairies covered with wormwood.
 
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