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  • noun Plural form of cottonwood.

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Examples

  • The hedge, as we called it, was dark red, brown, yellow, and green; the cottonwoods were a light yellow.

    Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

  • Like a gleam of sunlight through the cottonwoods was the coming of the child to the gloomy house of Withersteen.

    Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905

  • However, a few trees, such as cottonwoods, oaks, and willows grow in river valleys, and some nonwoody plants, specifically a few hundred species of flowers, grow among the grasses.

    Grassland biome 2008

  • But today, saltcedar has crowded out native plants such as cottonwoods and willows, disrupting the habitat of birds, fish, and other forms of life.

    ENS 2008

  • At noon the wind began to rise and in an hour it was lashing the cottonwoods.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The place was ineffably beautiful, the cottonwoods a deep amber color.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • As the day ended the swollen buds of the cottonwoods seemed to have been sprayed with bronze.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • To chase cows off the far shore we paddled across the river, leapt out and ran cursing through the cottonwoods.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Had the bald eagles used it before moving half a mile west to the cottonwoods?

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The tops of the cottonwoods glittered like icy nosegays, stems wrapped in gauze.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

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