cottonwood (plural cottonwoods)

1. A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:

     […] 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.

2. Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
3. cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family

• German: Pappel
• Spanish: álamo

1. Surname
2. A town in Houston County, Alabama.
3. A city in Yavapai County, Arizona.
4. A census-designated place in Shasta County, California.
5. A ghost town in Yolo County, California.
6. A former CDP/and/unincorporated community in Douglas County, Colorado, mostly now incorporated into the town of Parker, Colorado.
7. An unincorporated community in Fayetteville, Fayette County.
8. A city in Idaho County, Idaho.
9. A city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
10. A small unincorporated community in Coal County, Oklahoma.
11. An unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
12. A tiny town in Jackson County, South Dakota.
13. An unincorporated community in Callahan County, Texas.
14. A city in Kaufman County, Texas.