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Definition of Cotton rose

1. Noun. Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night; widely cultivated; naturalized in southeastern United States.

2. Noun. Any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotton Rose

cotton bolls cotton bollworm cotton cake cotton candy cotton cloth cotton flannel cotton gin cotton gins cotton mill cotton mouse

cotton on cotton plant cotton rat cotton reel cotton rose (current term) cotton rush cotton stainer cotton strain cotton swab cotton swabs

cotton thistle cotton to cotton up cotton wool cotton wool bud cotton wool buds cotton wools cottonade cottonades

Literary usage of Cotton rose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1846)
"In the succeeding year cotton rose and wheat also. The price of cotton seems to have been greatly more dependant upon the extent of the crop than upon the ..."

2. The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1911)
"When cotton rose, the tenants had already sold their cotton; when cotton fell the ... When cotton rose again, up went the new Spring rent contracts. ..."

3. Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL. D.: Political, Judicial and Literary by Levi Woodbury (1852)
"cotton rose to 21 cents per pound, and great speculations in it in the United States. 1826. ... English and American cotton goods. 1834. cotton rose to ..."

4. The Quadroon: Or, A Lover's Adventures in Louisiana by Mayne Reid (1856)
"It is strictly a bird of the tropical forests. " Cotton-rose."—Page 11. The wild " althea," or " cotton-rose," of Louisiana, ..."

5. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of by Thomas Lanier Clingman (1877)
"I find that from 1833 up to 1837, cotton rose to fourteen and three-tenths cents—an increase of forty per cent. on the previous prices under the high tariff ..."

6. Eighty Year's Progress of the United States by Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, Thomas Prentice Ketteil, Henry Youle Hind, Thomas C. Keefer (1864)
"It was under the influence of those great inventions that the importations of cotton rose in twenty years—from 1781 to 1801— from five to fifty-six millions ..."

7. Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures : Connected ...by George Savage White by George Savage White (1836)
"cotton rose to 21 cents per pound, and great speculations in it in the ... J cotton rose to 16} cents per pound—higher than any other year since 1££i. [1. ..."

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