tree cotton vs cotton

tree cotton and cotton both are nouns.

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

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

tree cotton: East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms
cotton: erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

Other hypernyms of tree cotton include cotton plant.

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

tree 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
cotton: erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

Other hypernyms of tree cotton include cotton plant.

tree cotton (noun)	cotton (noun)
East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms	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

tree cotton (verb)	cotton (verb)
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