upland cotton

1. 1.

   native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton

   SynonymsGossypium hirsutum

   Broadercotton

Questions about upland cotton

What does upland cotton mean?

upland cotton means "native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton".

What is another word for upland cotton?

Close synonyms include Gossypium hirsutum. 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 upland cotton a common word?

upland 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.