wild cotton
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Noun
wild cotton (uncountable)
- (Australia, informal) A tall weed, resembling milkweed, with a ball-shaped seed pod, Gomphocarpus fruticosus (syn. Asclepias fruticosa) and Gomphocarpus physocarpus (syn. Asclepias physocarpa).
- Synonym: balloon cotton, swan plant; (in USA) milkweed
- Cotton grass (Eriophorum spp)
- A shrubby herb (Gossypium thurberi) of southern Arizona and Mexico
- Any of the cultivated cottons that have escaped and established themselves in the wild.
- Any of several plants of the genera Abutilon and Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus moscheutos
Translations
Gomphocarpus fruticosus
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