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Meaning of wild cotton | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A tall weed, resembling milkweed, with a ball-shaped seed pod, Gomphocarpus fruticosus (syn. Asclepias fruticosa) and Gomphocarpus physocarpus (syn. Asclepias physocarpa).
    Australia, informal, uncountable
  2. Cotton grass (Eriophorum spp.).
    uncountable
  3. A shrubby herb (Gossypium thurberi) of southern Arizona and Mexico.
    uncountable
  4. Any of the cultivated cottons that have escaped and established themselves in the wild.
    uncountable
  5. Any of several plants of the genera Abutilon and Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus moscheutos.
    uncountable

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CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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