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upland cotton

noun

a plant, Gossypium hirsutum, of warm regions of the New World, that is the chief commercial cotton crop in the U.S.

Also called American cotton.

Origin:
1810–20, Americanism

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upland cotton

—n
1.	a tropical American cotton plant, Gossypium hirsutum, widely cultivated for its fibre
2.	the fibre of this plant, or the fabric woven from it

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