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SEA ISLAND COTTON
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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 fibers
Synonyms:
Gossypium barbadense; sea island cotton; tree cotton
Classified under:
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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