Pima cotton

American  

noun

(often lowercase)

1. a variety of fine cotton developed from Egyptian cotton, produced in the southwestern U.S., used chiefly in the manufacture of shirts, ties, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of Pima cotton

1935–40, after Pima Co., Arizona

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• Pima cotton vs. Egyptian cotton

Example Sentences

Small tomato plants sprouted in tidy rows on one side of the road and pima cotton on the other.

From Los Angeles Times

Crops are at risk on a huge scale, including pistachios, Pima cotton and tomatoes.

From New York Times

At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton.

From New York Times

Submerged fields lie bereft of the tomatoes and Pima cotton that would ordinarily fill them, an agricultural Atlantis larger than Manhattan.

From New York Times

Boswell Company, one of the largest privately owned farms in the nation, said that the long-term, regionwide economic impact could be exponentially higher than in 1983 because the commodities that are now grown — high-end crops such as nuts, tomatoes and Pima cotton — are much costlier and are spiking in value with inflation.

From New York Times