Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A tall weed, resembling milkweed, with a ball-shaped seed pod, Gomphocarpus fruticosus (syn. Asclepias fruticosa) and Gomphocarpus physocarpus (syn. Asclepias physocarpa).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, informal, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: balloon cotton, swan plant; (in USA) milkweed
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Cotton grass (Eriophorum spp.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A shrubby herb (Gossypium thurberi) of southern Arizona and Mexico.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of the cultivated cottons that have escaped and established themselves in the wild.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several plants of the genera Abutilon and Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus moscheutos.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cotton, cotton plant
History
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
