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pima

The English word “pima” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A soft form of cotton having long fibres (Gossypium barbadense)

Etymology

Named in honor of the Pima Indians, who helped raise the cotton on USDA experimental farms in Arizona in the early 1900s.

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