tree cotton

tree cotton
noun
1. East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms
Syn: ↑Gossypium arboreum
Hypernyms: ↑cotton, ↑cotton plant
2. 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
Hypernyms: ↑cotton, ↑cotton plant

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noun
1.
a. : an East Indian cotton plant (Gossypium arboreum) cultivated especially for ornament
b. : the fiber obtained from tree cotton
2.
a. : silk cotton tree
b. : kapok

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