(botany) Any of several poplar trees (Populus) having hairy, encapsulated fruit.
Cottonwood
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A river, about 225 km (140 mi) long, of southwest Minnesota flowing generally eastward to the Minnesota River.
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Cottonwood may refer to:
- Plants
- P. sect. Aegiros, a taxonomic section of the genus Populus, the poplars.
- Hibiscus tiliaceus, a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family
- Places
- Cottonwood, Alabama
- Cottonwood, Arizona
- Cottonwood, California
- Cottonwood, Colorado
- Cottonwood, Idaho
- Cottonwood, Minnesota
- Cottonwood, South Dakota
- Cottonwood, Callahan County, Texas
- Cottonwood, Kaufman County, Texas
- Cottonwood West, Utah, an unincorporated area in Salt Lake County that has since become part of the cities of Holladay and Murray
- Cottonwood Heights, Utah, a city south of Cottonwood West
- Cottonwood River, several rivers
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