cotton

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: cotton

1	n	erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
2	v	take a liking to

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: cotton

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; Gossypium arboreum, tree cotton
East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms; Gossypium barbadense, sea island cotton, tree cotton
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; Gossypium herbaceum, Levant cotton
Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons; Gossypium hirsutum, upland cotton
native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton; Gossypium peruvianum, Peruvian cotton
cotton with long rough hairy fibers; Egyptian cotton
fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton; Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi, wild cotton
shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico

Type of:: bush, shrub
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Types:: absorbent cotton
cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax; long-staple cotton
cotton with relatively long fibers; short-staple cotton
cotton with relatively short fibers

Types:: gauze, gauze bandage
(medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings; petrolatum gauze
gauze saturated with petrolatum

Type of:: cloth, fabric, material, textile
artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Types:: lisle, lisle thread
a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton)

Type of:: thread, yarn
a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

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