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Eastern cottonwood

DEFINITIONS OF: Eastern cottonwood

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n a common poplar of eastern and central United States; cultivated in United States for its rapid growth and luxuriant foliage and in Europe for timber

Synonyms:
Populus deltoides, necklace poplar
Type of:
cottonwood
any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed
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