HyperDic: sea_island_cotton

English > 1 sense of the expression sea island cotton:
NOUNplantsea island cotton, tree cotton, Gossypium barbadensesmall bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States
English > sea island cotton: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningsmall bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers.
Synonymstree cotton, Gossypium barbadense
Broadercotton, cotton plantErect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

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