cottonwood cottonweed • cottony · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · cottonwood · · Text Latin · · Script 10 · · Length Definitions · · · (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed. · · Noun Definition 1 (noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region. Synonyms: white basswood, Tilia heterophylla. · · Noun Definition 2 Synonyms · · · white basswood · · Synonym 1 tilia heterophylla · · Synonym 2 Characters · · c latin small letter c U+0063 d latin small letter d U+0064 n latin small letter n U+006E o latin small letter o U+006F t latin small letter t U+0074 w latin small letter w U+0077