Cotton plant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
    cotton.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is G. herbaceum.

Webster 1913