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PERUVIAN COTTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Peruvian cotton mean?
• PERUVIAN COTTON (noun)
The noun PERUVIAN COTTON has 1 sense:
1. cotton with long rough hairy fibers
Familiarity information: PERUVIAN COTTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cotton with long rough hairy fibers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gossypium peruvianum; Peruvian cotton
Hypernyms ("Peruvian 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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