cottonwood

noun

American basswood of the Allegheny region

any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed

Roots

qutncotton- · Arabic · cotton widu-wood · Old English · wood

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The word cottonwood breaks down into 2 roots of Arabic and Old English origin: cotton-, from Arabic qutn (“cotton”); and -wood, from Old English widu (“wood”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.