EGYPTIAN COTTON

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Meaning:

Fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Egyptian cotton" is a kind of...):

cotton; cotton plant (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)

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