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swamp cottonwood

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English

Syllables
swamp -cot-ton-wood
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any tree of species Populus heterophylla, native to damp areas of eastern United States.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

swamp cottonwoods (plural)

Synonyms

river cottonwood downy poplar swamp poplar black cottonwood populus heterophylla

Questions

What does swamp cottonwood mean?
Any tree of species Populus heterophylla, native to damp areas of eastern United States.

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