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UPLAND COTTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does upland cotton mean?
• UPLAND COTTON (noun)
The noun UPLAND COTTON has 1 sense:
1. native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton
Familiarity information: UPLAND COTTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gossypium hirsutum; upland cotton
Hypernyms ("upland 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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