cottonwood

Meaning

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 (section), a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
• A flowering shrub or tree, the cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), in the mallow family.
• A tree, Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.

Origin

• cotton + wood