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GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gossypium herbaceum mean? 

GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM (noun)
  The noun GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM has 1 sense:

1. Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottonsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gossypium herbaceum; Levant cotton

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

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


 Context examples 


The oil extracted from the seeds of Gossypium herbaceum.

(Levant Cottonseed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The edible oil extracted from the seeds of Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum.

(Cottonseed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)



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