SEA ISLAND COTTON as NOUN

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
   Synonym(s)
   • Gossypium barbadense (what does Gossypium barbadense mean?)
   • tree cotton (what does tree cotton mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) sea island cotton is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • cotton (what does cotton mean?)
   • cotton plant (what does cotton plant mean?)