wild cotton (English, noun)
expansion: wild cotton (uncountable)
Senses:
glosses: A tall weed, resembling milkweed, with a ball-shaped seed pod, Gomphocarpus fruticosus (syn. Asclepias fruticosa) and Gomphocarpus physocarpus (syn. Asclepias physocarpa).
tags: Australia
informal
uncountable
glosses: Cotton grass (Eriophorum spp.).
tags: uncountable
glosses: A shrubby herb (Gossypium thurberi) of southern Arizona and Mexico.
tags: uncountable
glosses: Any of the cultivated cottons that have escaped and established themselves in the wild.
tags: uncountable
glosses: Any of several plants of the genera Abutilon and Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus moscheutos.
tags: uncountable
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