LEVANT COTTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Levant cotton mean? 

• LEVANT COTTON (noun)
  The noun LEVANT COTTON 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 cottons

  Familiarity information: LEVANT COTTON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVANT COTTON (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 ("Levant cotton" is a kind of...):

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