Definition of Sea island cotton 1. Noun. Small bushy tree grown
on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the
southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky
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cotton Below you will find example usage of this term as found
in modern and/or classical literature: 1. The Encyclopedia
Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918) "The Sea
Island cotton is undoubtedly indigenous to America and was ...
The lint of the Sea Island cotton is from one and one- half to
two and a half inches ..." 2. The Merchants' Magazine and
Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana
(1841) "Upon one of these islands, separated from the mainland
by a salt marsh, the sea-island cotton was first produced, and
the fact that this species of cotton