gossypium herbaceum

1. 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

   SynonymsLevant cotton

   Broadercotton

Questions about gossypium herbaceum

What does gossypium herbaceum mean?

gossypium herbaceum means "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".

What is another word for gossypium herbaceum?

Close synonyms include Levant 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 herbaceum a common word?

gossypium herbaceum 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.