GENUS GOSSYPIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gossypium mean? 

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

1. herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GOSSYPIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Gossypium; Gossypium

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gossypium"):

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

Holonyms ("genus Gossypium" is a member of...):

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)