EGYPTIAN COTTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Egyptian cotton mean? 

• EGYPTIAN COTTON (noun)
  The noun EGYPTIAN COTTON has 1 sense:

1. fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton

  Familiarity information: EGYPTIAN COTTON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EGYPTIAN COTTON (noun)

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Meaning:

Fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Egyptian cotton" is a kind of...):

cotton; cotton plant (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)