cotton vs tree cotton

tree cotton vs cotton

cotton and tree cotton both are nouns.

cotton is a verb but tree cotton is not a verb.

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

As nouns, tree cotton is a hyponym of cotton; that is, tree 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
tree cotton: East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms

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

cotton (noun)	tree cotton (noun)
fabric woven from cotton fibers	East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms
thread made of 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
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)	tree cotton (verb)
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Difference between cotton and tree cotton

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