Definition of Genus Gossypium

1. Noun. Herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton.

Exact synonyms: Gossypium
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Malvaceae, Mallow Family, Malvaceae
Member holonyms: Cotton, Cotton Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gossypium

genus Glyceria
genus Glycine
genus Glycyrrhiza
genus Gnaphalium
genus Gnetum
genus Gobiesox
genus Gobio
genus Gomphotherium
genus Gomphrena
genus Goniopteris
genus Gonorhynchus
genus Goodyera
genus Gopherus
genus Gorgonocephalus
genus Gorilla
genus Gossypium (current term)
genus Gracula
genus Grammatophyllum
genus Grampus
genus Graptophyllum
genus Grevillea
genus Grewia
genus Grias
genus Grindelia
genus Griselinia
genus Grison
genus Groenlandia
genus Grus
genus Guaiacum
genus Guevina

Literary usage of Genus Gossypium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Culture and Commerce of Cotton in India and Elsewhere by John Forbes Royle (1851)
"THE genus Gossypium. The genus Gossypium, so named from what is said by Pliny to have been the name of the cotton-plant, is distinguished by having a double ..."

2. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"From the genus Gossypium they differ, principally, in the total absence of ... that these species should in his judgment be placed in the genus Gossypium, ..."

3. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"Cotton .fiber is derived from several species of the genus Gossypium belonging to the mallow family (Malvaceae). Okra (Hibiscus esculentus L.) and hollyhock ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The genus Gossypium includes herbs and shrubs, which have been cultivated from time immemorial, and are now found widely distributed throughout the tropical ..."

5. Report of the Marlborough College Natural History Society (founded April 9th (1865)
"The hairs on the seeds, and three bracts at the base of the flower serve to distinguish the genus gossypium (cotton plant) from the others of the order. ..."

6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"The genus Gossypium is characterised by having a double calyx, of which the inner is cup-shaped, ..."

7. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1900)
"The genus Gossypium to which cotton belongs is separated from the other genera of the Malvaceae by the presence of three, sometimes in cultivation four, ..."

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