The cotton-plant personified.
“The nymph Gossypia heads the velvet sod,
And warms with rosy smiles the watery god.”
Darwin: Loves of the Plants, canto ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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