GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gossypium hirsutum mean? 

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

1. native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gossypium hirsutum; upland cotton

Hypernyms ("Gossypium hirsutum" 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 edible oil extracted from the seeds of Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum.

(Cottonseed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)