GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Gossypium herbaceum; Levant cotton

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Gossypium herbaceum" is a kind of...):

cotton; cotton plant (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)

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