gossypium hirsutum

1. 1.

   native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton

   Synonymsupland cotton

   Broadercotton

Questions about gossypium hirsutum

What does gossypium hirsutum mean?

gossypium hirsutum means "native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton".

What is another word for gossypium hirsutum?

Close synonyms include upland 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 hirsutum a common word?

gossypium hirsutum 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.