tree cotton   (TTS Sound)

The noun tree cotton has 2 senses

• sea island cotton, tree cotton, Gossypium barbadense -- (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)


• tree cotton, Gossypium arboreum -- (East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms)