n1. (Plants) a cotton plant, Gossypium barbadense, of the Sea Islands, widely cultivated for its fine long fibres2. (Plants) the fibre of this plant or the material woven from it
sea′-is`land
(or Sea′ Is`land) cot′ton,
n. a long-fibered cotton, Gossypium barbadense, raised orig. in the Sea Islands and now grown chiefly in the West Indies. [1795–1805, Amer.]