Usually means: Tree, fluffy seeds, fast-growing.
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  1. cottonwood: Merriam-Webster
  2. cottonwood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cottonwood, cottonwood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cottonwood: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cottonwood: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cottonwood, cottonwood: Wordnik
  7. cottonwood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cottonwood, cottonwood: Wiktionary
  9. cottonwood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cottonwood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cottonwood: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cottonwood, cottonwood: Dictionary.com
  13. cottonwood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cottonwood (EP), Cottonwood (disambiguation), Cottonwood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cottonwood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cottonwood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cottonwood: Rhymezone
  18. Cottonwood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cottonwood: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cottonwood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Cottonwood: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cottonwood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Cottonwood, Cottonwood: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
noun:  Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
noun:  A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
noun:  A tree of species Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A town in Houston County, Alabama.
noun:  A city in Yavapai County, Arizona.
noun:  A census-designated place in Shasta County, California.
noun:  A ghost town in Yolo County, California.
noun:  A former census-designated place and unincorporated community in Douglas County, Colorado, mostly now incorporated into the town of Parker.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia, United States.
noun:  A city in Idaho County, Idaho.
noun:  A city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
noun:  A small unincorporated community in Coal County, Oklahoma.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A tiny town in Jackson County, South Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Callahan County, Texas.
noun:  A city in Kaufman County, Texas.

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