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cottonwood

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cottonwood

Any of several North American poplar trees with seeds topped by a thick tuft of silky hairs. The eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides), growing to 30 m/100 ft, is native to the eastern USA. The name ‘cottonwood’ is also given to the downy-leaved Australian tree Bedfordia salaoina. (True cottonwood genus Populus, family Salicaceae.)



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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.
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She pointed into the gold cottonwood tree behind whose top we stood and said again, `What name?
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The rivers, in general, were skirted with willows and bitter cottonwood trees, and the prairies covered with wormwood.
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