GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gossypium barbadense mean? 

• GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE (noun)
  The noun GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE has 1 sense:

1. 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 fibers

  Familiarity information: GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE (noun)

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Meaning:

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 fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gossypium barbadense; sea island cotton; tree cotton

Hypernyms ("Gossypium barbadense" is a kind of...):

cotton; cotton plant (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)