short-staple cotton

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   cotton with relatively short fibers

   Broadercotton

Questions about short-staple cotton

What does short-staple cotton mean?

short-staple cotton means "cotton with relatively short fibers".

Is short-staple cotton a common word?

short-staple 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.