WordNet
black cottonwood
n. North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood [syn: swamp cottonwood, downy poplar, swamp poplar, Populus heterophylla]
cottonwood of western North America with dark green leaves shining above and rusty or silvery beneath [syn: Western balsam poplar, Populus trichocarpa]
Usage examples of "black cottonwood".
There were red alder and black cottonwood, fir and pine and oak spreading out as the skirmishers of the triumphant forest's march.
The night the bird had come from Winterfell, Eddard Stark had taken the girls to the castle godswood, an acre of elm and alder and black cottonwood overlooking the river.