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    SEA ISLAND COTTON

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 fibersplay

    Synonyms:

    Gossypium barbadense; sea island cotton; tree cotton

    Classified under:

    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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