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COTTONSEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil
Classified under:
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)