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Cottonwood

noun

Any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed.

American basswood of the Allegheny region. Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood.

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"Cottonwood" Quotes from Famous Books

... banjos, and striped shirts with high collars, they gather beneath the rays of the silvery Southern moon to sing their tribal melodies on the melon-lined shores of the old Oswego; and by day he will study them at their customary employment as they climb from limb to limb of the cottonwood trees, picking cotton. On Sunday he will arrange and revise his notes, and on Monday morning he ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... it is the song You sang me from the cottonwood, Too young to feel that I was young, Too glad to ...

— Poems • William D. Howells

... and the men in silence followed after. They had seen a thing of strong medicine, and the Great Mystery had sent power quickly. That palsy by which the man had been touched had come with the swiftness of the wind when it whirls the leaves of the cottonwood. They all knew that the tongue would be dumb, and the eyes would be blind in the ...

— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan

... the mouth he started to step the depth, but stopped when he had gone a third farther than the length of a military type fuselage. He turned and looked back toward the entrance, his hands on his hips, his eyes wide and glowing, his lips trembling and eager. He looked up at the top; with cottonwood poles and brush he could roof it against the sun and the winds. He looked at the fine, hard-packed sand floor that the winds never stirred. He looked at ...

— Skyrider • B. M. Bower

... their favorite game being to steal each other's horses. The Indian method of caring for their horses in the cold winter was to let them shift for themselves during the day, and to take them into their own lodges at night where they were fed with the juicy, brittle twigs of the cottonwood tree. With this spare fodder the animals thrive and keep ...

— First Across the Continent • Noah Brooks

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