black cottonwood

Questions about black cottonwood

What does black cottonwood mean?

black cottonwood means "North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black cottonwood?

Close synonyms include swamp cottonwood, downy poplar, swamp poplar, Populus heterophylla, Western balsam poplar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black cottonwood a common word?

black cottonwood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.