SEA ISLAND COTTON
Dictionary entry overview: What does sea island cotton mean? • SEA ISLAND COTTON (noun)
The noun SEA ISLAND COTTON has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: SEA ISLAND COTTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SEA ISLAND COTTON (noun)
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 fibers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gossypium barbadense; sea island cotton; tree cotton
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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