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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as cotton-plant.
Examples
“The waste cotton-shrub, long useless, disobedient, as the thistle by the wayside, -- have ye not conquered it; made it into beautiful bandana webs; white woven shirts for men; bright-tinted air-garments wherein flit goddesses?”
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
“The waste cotton-shrub, gather its waste white down, spin it, weave it; that, in place of idle litter, there may be folded webs, and the naked skin of man be covered.”
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
“They bear _silk-cotton_, which falls to the ground in November and December, but is not so substantial as that of the cotton-shrub, being rather like the down of thistles.”
“The right cotton-shrub grows here also, but not on the sandbank.”
“Here is also a little of the right West India cotton-shrub: but none of the cotton is exported, nor do they make much cloth of it.”
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Cotton
"The popular name of several species of Gossypium, natural order Malvaceæ, from which the well-known textile substance cotton is obtained. The genus is indigenous to both hemispheres, and the plant...
cotton, Cotton, cotton gin, King Cotton, Levant cotton, Cotton Mather, Cotton Club, Egyptian cotton, pima cotton, Gossypium, short-staple cotton, upland cotton and 20 more...
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