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sea island cotton

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables
sea is-land -cot-ton
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Gossypium barbadense, a fine long-stapled variety of cotton grown on the Sea Islands, off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

Sea Island cottons (plural)

Synonyms

American Pima cotton American-Egyptian cotton Brazilian cotton Egyptian cotton Gallini cotton kidney cotton long-staple cotton Peruvian cotton Pima cotton upland cotton ELS cotton

Questions

What does sea island cotton mean?
Gossypium barbadense, a fine long-stapled variety of cotton grown on the Sea Islands, off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

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