English > cotton: 5 senses > noun 3, plant| Meaning | Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers. |
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| Synonym | cotton plant |
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| Member of | Gossypium, genus Gossypium | herbs and shrubs and small trees |
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| Parts | cottonseed | seed of cotton plants |
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| Narrower | Egyptian cotton | fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt |
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| Levant cotton, Gossypium herbaceum | Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty |
| Peruvian cotton, Gossypium peruvianum | cotton with long rough hairy fibers |
| sea island cotton, tree cotton, Gossypium barbadense | small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States |
| tree cotton, Gossypium arboreum | East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms |
| upland cotton, Gossypium hirsutum | Native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton |
| wild cotton, Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi | shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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| Spanish | algodonero, algodón |
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| Catalan | cotó, cotoner |
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