gossypium

Questions about gossypium

What does gossypium mean?

gossypium means "herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton".

How many syllables are in gossypium?

gossypium has 4 syllables and divides as gos-sy-pi-um under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gossypium?

Close synonyms include genus Gossypium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gossypium a common word?

gossypium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.