levant cotton

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

   SynonymsGossypium herbaceum

   Broadercotton

Questions about levant cotton

What does levant cotton mean?

levant cotton 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 levant cotton?

Close synonyms include Gossypium herbaceum. 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 levant cotton a common word?

levant cotton 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.