wild cotton

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   shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico

   SynonymsArizona wild cottonGossypium thurberi

   Broadercotton

Questions about wild cotton

What does wild cotton mean?

wild cotton means "shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico".

What is another word for wild cotton?

Close synonyms include Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi. 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 wild cotton a common word?

wild 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.