name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
cottonwood
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name
Meaning 2
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Houston County, Alabama.
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Yavapai County, Arizona.
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Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Shasta County, California.
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Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Yolo County, California.
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Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
A former census-designated place and unincorporated community in Douglas County, Colorado, mostly now incorporated into the town of Parker.
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Meaning 7
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia.
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Meaning 8
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Idaho County, Idaho.
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Meaning 9
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
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Meaning 10
A number of places in the United States:
A small unincorporated community in Coal County, Oklahoma.
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Meaning 11
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
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Meaning 12
A number of places in the United States:
A tiny town in Jackson County, South Dakota.
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Meaning 13
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Callahan County, Texas.
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Meaning 14
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Kaufman County, Texas.
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noun
Meaning 15
A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
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noun
Meaning 16
Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
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noun
Meaning 17
A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
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noun
Meaning 18
A tree of species Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.
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noun
Meaning 19
Several species of trees endemic to New Zealand.
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noun
Meaning 20
American basswood of the Allegheny region
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Synonyms: white basswood, Tilia heterophylla
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Broader terms: linden, linden tree, basswood, lime, lime tree
noun
Meaning 21
any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed
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Broader terms: poplar, poplar tree
Narrower terms: Eastern cottonwood, necklace poplar, Populus deltoides, black cottonwood, Western balsam poplar, Populus trichocarpa, swamp cottonwood, downy poplar, swamp poplar, Populus heterophylla
History
Etymology
From cotton + wood.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Ahtna: tʼaghes — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Western Apache: bitʼiis — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓ ᎬᏂᎯᏛ (ada gvnihidv) — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Cheyenne: xamaehoohtsêstse — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Deg Xinag: t'ighith — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Dogrib: t'ooh — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Finnish: poppeli — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- German: Pappel — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Gwich'in: t'oo — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Manx: pobbyl — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Navajo: tʼiis — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Okanagan: múlx — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Polish: topola — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Russian: тополь (topolʹ) — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Spanish: álamo — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Lower Tanana: t'egheth — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Taos: túłoną — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Tewa: tay — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Turkish: kavak — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Unami: këkchëkwipahkihëlas — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Upper Kuskokwim: t'ighis — tree from Populus with fluffy catkins
- Hawaiian: hau — Hibiscus tiliaceus
- Malay: baru — Hibiscus tiliaceus
- Polish: ketmia lipowata — Hibiscus tiliaceus
- Māori: tauhinu — Tree species endemic to New Zealand
- Māori: tauhinu korokio — Tree species endemic to New Zealand
- Māori: taihinu — Tree species endemic to New Zealand
- Māori: tauhinu koromiko — Tree species endemic to New Zealand
- Polish: topola — Tree species endemic to New Zealand