cottonwood

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
    — Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.
  2. Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
  3. A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
  4. A tree of species 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.
  5. Several species of trees endemic to New Zealand.

词形变化

cottonwoods plural

词汇关系

衍生词
balsam cottonwood black cottonwood coastal cottonwood coast cottonwood cottonwood borer cottonwood hibiscus cottonwood leaf beetle cottonwood leaf-mining beetle eastern cottonwood Fremont cottonwood Great Plains cottonwood green cottonwood lanceleaf cottonwood mountain cottonwood narrowleaf cottonwood northern cottonwood plains cottonwood river cottonwood swamp cottonwood willow cottonwood Wislizenus's cottonwood yellow cottonwood

词源

From cotton + wood.
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