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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A very strong, high-grade cotton of medium staple developed from selected Egyptian cottons in the southwest United States.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Pima, County in southern Arizona, location of the experimental farm on which it was developed in the early 1900s.]

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