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WILD COTTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild cotton mean?
• WILD COTTON (noun)
The noun WILD COTTON has 1 sense:
1. shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico
Familiarity information: WILD COTTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Arizona wild cotton; Gossypium thurberi; wild cotton
Hypernyms ("wild cotton" is a kind of...):
cotton; cotton plant (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)
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