cottonwood
ko tuhn wood
- n any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed
- n American basswood of the Allegheny region
- He began running sheep along cottonwood-shaded Badwater Creek and in the high mountain meadows beyond.
- Made from pine and cottonwood, decorated with paper flowers and covered with a crude gesso, these bultos (figures carved in the round) and retablos (painted panels) of the .
- On an island below the Falls, on a high cottonwood tree, he saw a lone eagle's nest.