sea island cotton

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymstree cottonGossypium barbadense

   Broadercotton

Questions about sea island cotton

What does sea island cotton mean?

sea island cotton means "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".

What is another word for sea island cotton?

Close synonyms include tree cotton, Gossypium barbadense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sea island cotton a common word?

sea island cotton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.