DCHP-3

cottonwood (tree)†

Esp. West
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

any of several trees of the genus Populus especially the black poplar, P. trichocarpa.

Quotations

1877
[We went] through thick underbrush of willows and aspens that had sprung up round the burnt spruce and cotton-wood.
1959
. . . the house stared with broken windows upon the dying cottonwood trees. . . .
2n.

the wood of such trees.

Quotations

1910
The original Police quarters, built of cotton-wood, roofed with poles, and thatched with grass and earth, were being done away with.
1958
. . . the Indians had found [the Douglas fir] too big to handle, and hewed their dugouts and totem poles from the more malleable Red Cedar or [from] Cottonwood.