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SEA ISLAND COTTON

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• 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.

• SEA ISLAND COTTON (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 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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