cotton vs fabric

cotton and fabric both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cotton	Yes	No	Yes	No
fabric	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fabric is a hypernym of cotton; that is, fabric is a word with a broader meaning than cotton:

cotton: fabric woven from cotton fibers
fabric: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of cotton include cloth, material, textile.

cotton (noun)	fabric (noun)
fabric woven from cotton fibers	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
thread made of cotton fibers	the underlying structure
erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

cotton (verb)	fabric (verb)
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