gossypium : Idioms & Phrases
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genus gossypium
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noun herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton
Gossypium.
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gossypium arboreum
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noun East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms
tree cotton.
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gossypium barbadense
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noun 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
sea island cotton; tree cotton.
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gossypium herbaceum
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noun 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
Levant cotton.
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gossypium hirsutum
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noun native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton
upland cotton.
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gossypium peruvianum
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noun cotton with long rough hairy fibers
Peruvian cotton.
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gossypium thurberi
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noun shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico
wild cotton; Arizona wild cotton.
