sea island cotton

Sea Island cotton

n. A fine, long-staple cotton originally cultivated in southeastern North America.

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[After the Sea Islands.]

Sea island cotton

A very long staple cotton originally grown on islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. It is now mostly grown in the Caribbean.

Thesaurus

Noun

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sea island 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 fibersGossypium barbadense, tree cottoncotton plant, cotton - erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers