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1. Any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed
    
2. American basswood of the Allegheny region
   - white basswood, Tilia heterophylla

Derived forms: cottonwoods

Type of: basswood, lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree, poplar, poplar tree

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