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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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... carried into it and arranged in a comfortable nest. The place selected for it was a dry sunny nook among the hills, half a mile west of the Little Missouri. Thirty yards from it was a ridge which commanded a wide view of the grassy slopes and cottonwood groves by the river. Men would have called the spot very beautiful, but it is tolerably certain that that side of it never touched the Coyotes ...

— Johnny Bear - And Other Stories From Lives of the Hunted • E. T. Seton

... Brigham I would go hunting and get him a nice one for dinner the next day. I went out that night with Gully and hunted some time, but the snow was a foot deep or more, and a crust had frozen, so that it was difficult hunting. At last we found a large flock of turkeys at roost in the tall Cottonwood timber. I shot two by starlight; one fell in the river, and we lost it, but the other fell dead at the roots of the tree. This was a large and fat turkey. I considered that it would do, and we returned home with it. We had been gone only ...

— The Mormon Menace - The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite • John Doyle Lee

... out. The winter-bleached prairie straw proved devoid of nourishment; and they could only keep them from starving by seeking for the "browse," as it is called, this being the green bark and tender buds and branches of the cottonwood and other stunted growths ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... of timber is to be found, consisting of pine, spruce, cottonwood, and birch. Thus far not the first sign of game had been seen. The whole country, after leaving Dyea, ...

— Klondike Nuggets - and How Two Boys Secured Them • E. S. Ellis

... current to see if he might swim his horse across. But even while he stared the stump of a cottonwood went whirling down the stream, struck a rock, perhaps, on the bottom, flung its entire bulk out of the water with the impact, and then floundered back into the stream again and whirled instantly out of sight in the ...

— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

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