SEA ISLAND COTTON

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small 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

Synonyms:

Gossypium barbadense; sea island cotton; tree cotton

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sea island 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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