English Dictionary

cottonwood

noun

A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins. / Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus

The cottonwood tree provides shade in the hot summer months.

意味（1）

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

[…] 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.

意味（2）

Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus

意味（3）

A flowering shrub or tree, the cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), in the mallow family.

意味（4）

A tree, 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.