cotton plant
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1. erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | bush, shrub, |
| definition | : | a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | gossypium arboreum, tree cotton, |
| definition | : | East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | gossypium barbadense, sea island cotton, tree cotton, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | gossypium herbaceum, levant cotton, |
| definition | : | Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | gossypium hirsutum, upland cotton, |
| definition | : | native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | egyptian cotton, |
| definition | : | fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | cottonseed, |
| definition | : | seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil (noun.plant) |
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