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noun
Gossypium barbadense, a fine long-stapled variety of cotton grown on the Sea Islands, off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tree cotton, Gossypium barbadense
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cotton, cotton plant
History
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