gossypium arboreum

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   East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms

   Synonymstree cotton

   Broadercotton

Questions about gossypium arboreum

What does gossypium arboreum mean?

gossypium arboreum means "East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms".

What is another word for gossypium arboreum?

Close synonyms include tree cotton. 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 arboreum a common word?

gossypium arboreum 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.