TREE COTTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tree cotton mean? 

• TREE COTTON (noun)
  The noun TREE COTTON has 2 senses:

1. small 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

2. East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms

  Familiarity information: TREE COTTON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREE COTTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small 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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gossypium barbadense; sea island cotton; tree cotton

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gossypium arboreum; tree cotton

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

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