Wiktionary
wild cotton
n. (context AU English) a tall weed with a ball shaped seed pod, (taxlink Gomphocarpus fruticosus species noshow=1).
WordNet
wild cotton
n. shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico [syn: Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi]
Wikipedia
Wild cotton
Wild cotton is a common name for several plants which may refer to:
- Wild forms of plants in the cotton genus, Gossypium
- Apocynum cannabinum
- Asclepias syriaca
- Ipomoea albivenia
Usage examples of "wild cotton".
Inside on a nest of raw wild cotton lay a bracelet of polished wood carved with an odd design of curling lines which reminded Val of Spanish moss.
The three headed for a grove of andiroba trees, surrounded by shoulder-high wild cotton weeds.
There was wild cotton, enough to clothe thousands, there was wild wheat and wild oats and herds of sheep and cattle enough to feed hundreds of thousands.