Bourbon cotton

noun

: a cotton derived from a West Indian cotton plant (Gossypium purpurascens)

Word History

Etymology

Bourbon (now Réunion), French island in the Indian ocean

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Rhymes for Bourbon cotton

• antiproton
• begotten
• forgotten
• guncotton
• gotten
• rotten