UPLAND COTTON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton

Synonyms:

Gossypium hirsutum; upland cotton

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("upland 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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