COTTONSEED

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cottonseed" is a kind of...):

oil-rich seed; oilseed (any of several seeds that yield oil)

Meronyms (substance of "cottonseed"):

cottonseed oil (edible oil pressed from cottonseeds)

Holonyms ("cottonseed" is a part of...):

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

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