cotton vs sea island cotton

sea island cotton vs cotton

cotton and sea island cotton both are nouns.

cotton is a verb but sea island cotton is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cotton	Yes	No	Yes	No
sea island cotton	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sea island cotton is a hyponym of cotton; that is, sea island cotton is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cotton:

cotton: erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
sea island cotton: small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers

Other hyponyms of cotton include Gossypium arboreum, tree cotton, Gossypium barbadense, tree cotton, Gossypium herbaceum, Levant cotton, Gossypium hirsutum, upland cotton, Gossypium peruvianum, Peruvian cotton, Egyptian cotton, Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi, wild cotton.

cotton (noun)	sea island cotton (noun)
fabric woven from cotton fibers	small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers
thread made of cotton fibers
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)	sea island cotton (verb)
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