tree-cotton

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noun A perennial cotton-plant, Gossypium arboreum, becoming a shrub or low tree, widely cultivated in East Indian gardens, but scarcely grown for fiber. Beneath the white wool the seeds are covered with a dense green down.

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Crow selected tree-cotton for his burden; but Drongo, noticing the black rain-clouds overhead, carried salt, and thus won; for his load became constantly lighter, while Crow's became heavier.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
A native tree-cotton, known as Barbados cotton, occurs in the West Indies; a herbaceous cotton-plant is known to have been cultivated in Peru long before the discovery of Columbus.

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
Basket - and mat-making are callings naturally suited to the primitive tribes who would obtain the bamboos from the forests, but weaving would not be associated with them unless cloth was first woven of tree-cotton.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
a little conical tuft of tree-cotton, the silky covering of the bomba, so as exactly to fill up the bore of the tube.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847