English Dictionary

cottonwood

名詞

A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins. / Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus

日本語の意味

綿毛（わたげ）があるポプラ属の樹木、特に水辺に生育する種である。 / Populus sect. Aigeirosに分類される、ふさふさした花序を持つポプラ類。

A lone cottonwood stood by the river, its fluffy seed tufts floating like snow across the surface.

川辺に一本の、綿毛をつけるポプラの木が立っていて、その綿毛が水面を雪のように漂っていた。

意味（1）

A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.

[…] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

意味（2）

Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus

意味（3）

A flowering shrub or tree, the cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), in the mallow family.

意味（4）

A tree, 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.

cottonwoods （ plural ）