Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tree_cotton

2 senses of tree cotton

Sense 1
sea island cotton, tree cotton, Gossypium barbadense -- (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)
       => cotton, cotton plant -- (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)

Sense 2
tree cotton, Gossypium arboreum -- (East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms)
       => cotton, cotton plant -- (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)