Common name for some species of plants of the genus Populus having triangular, toothed leaves and cottony seeds.
1 They searched the cotton - wood thickets, and traversed the raft in all directions.
2 An old huge cotton - wood tree spread its branches horizontally over our tent.
3 The song seemed to come from a cotton - wood tree near the path.
4 The stream was fringed with a dense growth of cotton - wood trees.
5 We had one hundred cords of cotton - wood piled up in readiness for sale.
6 I sold twenty cords of cotton - wood , and put eighty dollars into my pocket.
7 The banks were here and there fringed with willow thickets and small cotton - wood trees.
8 It stood close to the water among some cotton - wood trees.
9 They smoothed a cotton - wood tree, by taking off the bark, and painted it black.
10 Thur wur no trees 'ceptin' an odd cotton - wood hyur an' thur on the hillside.
11 A stream fringed with cotton - wood runs through the park; low ranges come down upon it.
12 An island formed over this steamer, and a growth of cotton - wood trees soon covered it.
13 There are hundreds of cotton - wood sticks, from forty to sixty feet long, on the shore.
14 Flat-boats and steamers, plantations and cotton - wood groves, islands and cut-offs, were all objects of interest.
15 Was this only a poplar or a cotton - wood tree?
16 In the meantime the men stripped the bark of the cotton - wood tree for the evening fodder.
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