cotton
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
Types & categories
- plant fiber hypernym
- absorbent cotton hyponym
- long-staple cotton hyponym
- short-staple cotton hyponym
Parts & wholes
Related & opposite
- cottony derivation
Sense 2 verb
take a liking to
cotton to something
Types & categories
- like hypernym
Sense 3 noun
fabric woven from cotton fibers
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- cotton substance meronym
Sense 4 noun
erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
Types & categories
- bush hypernym
- Gossypium arboreum hyponym
- tree cotton hyponym
- Levant cotton hyponym
- upland cotton hyponym
- Peruvian cotton hyponym
- Egyptian cotton hyponym
- wild cotton hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Gossypium member holonym
- cottonseed part meronym
Sense 5 noun
thread made of cotton fibers
Types & categories
- thread hypernym
- lisle thread hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cottony |
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | cotton |
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | padding |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | plant fiber |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | absorbent cotton |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | long-staple cotton |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | short-staple cotton |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | like |
| 3 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | cotton |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | fabric |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | gauze |
| 4 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Gossypium |
| 4 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | cottonseed |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | bush |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Gossypium arboreum |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | tree cotton |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Levant cotton |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | upland cotton |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Peruvian cotton |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Egyptian cotton |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | wild cotton |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | thread |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | lisle thread |