peruvian cotton

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   cotton with long rough hairy fibers

   SynonymsGossypium peruvianum

   Broadercotton

Questions about peruvian cotton

What does peruvian cotton mean?

peruvian cotton means "cotton with long rough hairy fibers".

What is another word for peruvian cotton?

Close synonyms include Gossypium peruvianum. 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 peruvian cotton a common word?

peruvian 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.