cottonwood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed
  2. noun American basswood of the Allegheny region
    Tilia heterophylla; white basswood.

WordNet

Cot"ton*wood` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

Webster 1913