Sea Island cotton

noun

Gossypium barbadense, a fine long-stapled variety of cotton grown on the Sea Islands, off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

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American Pima cottonAmerican-Egyptian cottonBrazilian cottonEgyptian cottonGallini cottonkidney cottonlong-staple cottonPeruvian cotton
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Meanings

nounSea Island cotton (usually uncountable, plural Sea Island cottons)

plural Sea Island cottons

  1. uncountableusuallyGossypium barbadense, a fine long-stapled variety of cotton grown on the Sea Islands, off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

    Synonyms: American Pima cotton, American-Egyptian cotton, Brazilian cotton, Egyptian cotton, Gallini cotton, kidney cotton, long-staple cotton, Peruvian cotton

Synonyms & antonyms

nounGossypium barbadense, a fine long-stapled variety of cotton grown on the Sea Islands, off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

Similar
American Pima cottonAmerican-Egyptian cottonBrazilian cottonEgyptian cottonGallini cottonkidney cottonlong-staple cottonPeruvian cottonPima cottonpima cottonupland cottonELS cotton

More synonyms by meaning

nounsmall 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

Similar
tree cottonGossypium barbadense
Broader
cottoncotton plant
Also see
tree cotton

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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