cotton bush
Britishnoun
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By-and-by the cotton seeds grew up into a cotton bush, with big brown pods upon it.
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It is the scrub of the cotton bush that they are carrying; you will see fields of it presently, some of it bursting into fluffy pods, for cotton growing is one of the most extensive and profitable of Egyptian industries.
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The cotton bush has large yellow flowers, and when the fruit, which is as large as a walnut, opens, the inside shows a quantity of seeds closely covered with soft woolly hairs.
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In India and Arabia the cotton bush has been cultivated for more than 2000 years, and Alexander the Great introduced it into Greece.
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