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COTTON PLANT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

Synonyms:

cotton; cotton plant

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "cotton plant"):

cottonseed (seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotton plant"):

Gossypium arboreum; tree cotton (East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms)

Gossypium barbadense; sea island cotton; tree cotton (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)

Gossypium herbaceum; Levant cotton (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)

Gossypium hirsutum; upland cotton (native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton)

Gossypium peruvianum; Peruvian cotton (cotton with long rough hairy fibers)

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

Arizona wild cotton; Gossypium thurberi; wild cotton (shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico)

Holonyms ("cotton plant" is a member of...):

genus Gossypium; Gossypium (herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton)

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