cottonwoodとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

cotton +‎ wood

名詞

cottonwood (複数形 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 […], 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. A flowering shrub or tree, the cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), in the mallow family.
4. A tree, Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.
   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎^[1]:

     There is no break in the trees. That is the wonder and the mystery of it. There where you see light-green rushes instead of dark-green undergrowth, there between the great cotton woods, that is my private gate into the unknown.