eastern cottonwood

1. 1.

   a common poplar of eastern and central United States; cultivated in United States for its rapid growth and luxuriant foliage and in Europe for timber

   Synonymsnecklace poplarPopulus deltoides

   Broadercottonwood

Questions about eastern cottonwood

What does eastern cottonwood mean?

eastern cottonwood means "a common poplar of eastern and central United States; cultivated in United States for its rapid growth and luxuriant foliage and in Europe for timber".

What is another word for eastern cottonwood?

Close synonyms include necklace poplar, Populus deltoides. 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 eastern cottonwood a common word?

eastern 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.