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单词 cotton tree
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cotton treen.

Forms: Also cotton-tree.
Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcotton-tree.
1. A name for various species of Bombax and Eriodendron.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > silk-cotton trees
gossipine1589
gossampine1601
cotton tree1670
god tree1681
silk-cotton tree1712
kapok1735
semul1809
ceiba1810
wool-tree1831
bombax1834
munguba1863
cabbage wood1885
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cotton tree, gossampinus.]
1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1152 The Tree, call'd the Cotton-tree, bearing a kind of Down which also is not fit to spin.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 164 The white Cotton-tree grows like an Oak... They bear a very fine sort of Cotton, called Silk Cotton.
a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 213 The first cotton trees which I saw were withered with age.
1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 91/2 The Cotton-plant, or Gossypium, must not be confounded with the Cotton-tree, Bombax, or Eriodendron.
2. A name for Viburnum Lantana and Populus nigra; in U.S. applied to Platanus occidentalis, also = cottonwood n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [noun]
popple1229
popple-tree1229
abele?a1300
poplar1371
black poplar1542
white poplar1542
poppling1570
cotton tree1633
tacamahac1739
Lombardy poplar1766
poplar pine1770
Po poplar1776
grey poplar1782
cottonwood1787
pine poplar1789
liard1809
white-backa1825
necklace poplar1845
silver poplar1847
weather-tree1847
hackmatack1873
bitter-weed1878
balsam-poplar1884
Russian poplar1884
Lombardy1917
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun]
bendwithc1440
opier1548
opulus1548
ople1551
dwarf plane tree1578
water elder1578
whitten1578
guelder rose1597
rose elder1597
wayfaring man's tree1597
wayfaring tree1597
opiet1601
cotton tree1633
viorne1637
mealy tree1640
laurustinus1664
stinking tree1681
black haw1688
laurel-thyme1693
laurustine1693
viburnum1731
wayfaring shrub1731
May rose1753
pembina1760
snowball tree1760
mealtree1785
stink-tree1795
cherry-wood1821
snowball1828
sloe1846
withe-rod1846
lithy-tree1866
nannyberry1867
king's crown1879
stag bush1884
snowball bush1931
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) iii. 1490 I enquired of a countrey man in Essex, if he knew any name of this [sc. Viburnum Lantana]: he answered, it was called the Cotton tree, by reason of the softnesse of the leaues.
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi iii. App. 5 The cotton tree is the only tree of this province except some scrubby pines and cedars.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum (Britten & Holland) The female of Populus nigra is called the Cotton-tree at Bury St. Edmunds, the seeds being enveloped in a beautiful white cotton.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 132 (Mealy Guelder-Rose, or Wayfaring Tree)..One of its common names is Cotton Tree, doubtless from the cottony appearance of its young shoots.
1865 Chambers's Encycl. at Plane The North-American plane, or button~wood, is sometimes called the cotton-tree.
3. Either of two Australian trees, Hibiscus tiliaceus or Cochlospermum heteronemum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hibiscus or mallow trees or shrubs and allies > [noun]
mallowa1400
mallowa1425
shrubbed mallow1597
shrubby mallow1597
shrub mallow1640
mahoe1666
purau1769
Malabar rose1818
rose of Sharon1835
shuttlecock1836
hau1843
cotton tree1876
1876 J. G. Knight in W. Harcus South Australia 178 One or two cotton trees in the grounds of the Government Resident have yielded excellent-looking staple.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 624Cotton Tree’. ‘Talwalpin’ of the aboriginals.
1950 J. W. Audas Native Trees Austral. (ed. 2) 174 Cochlospermum heteronemum... Its usual name of Cotton Tree is derived from the silky fibre that surrounds the seeds.
1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 72/2 The name cotton-tree for Hibiscus tiliaceus derives from the useful bark fibre.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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