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Cotton plant

noun

Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers. Synonym: cotton.

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... can see no more difficulty in this, than in the planter improving his varieties of the cotton plant.—C. D. 1858. ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... live-oak is growing—I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto. I pass rude sea-headlands, and enter Pamlico Sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland; O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp! The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness and barrenness—the old woods charged with mistletoe and trailing moss, The piney odour and the ...

— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman

Words linked to "Cotton plant" : Gossypium barbadense, Gossypium hirsutum, Egyptian cotton, Gossypium arboreum, upland cotton, Gossypium, sea island cotton, genus Gossypium, tree cotton, shrub, bush, Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi, cottonseed, Gossypium herbaceum, Levant cotton, wild cotton, Peruvian cotton, Gossypium peruvianum