Definition of Gossypium herbaceum

1. Noun. 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.

Exact synonyms: Levant Cotton
Generic synonyms: Cotton, Cotton Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gossypium Herbaceum

Gosainthan
Gospel
Gospel According to John
Gospel According to Luke
Gospel According to Mark
Gospel According to Matthew
Gospel of Luke
Gospel shop
Gospel shops
Gospels
Gosport
Gossage
Gosselin's fracture
Gossypium arboreum
Gossypium barbadense
Gossypium herbaceum (current term)
Gossypium hirsutum
Gossypium peruvianum
Gossypium thurberi
Gostivar
Gota Canal
Gotcha Day
Goteborg
Goth
Goth.
Gotha
Gotham
Gothamist
Gothamists
Gothamite

Literary usage of Gossypium herbaceum

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

1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"Bot. Gaz., 1914, 58, 445. COTTON SEED. The varieties of upland or short-staple cotton commonly cultivated for fiber are classed under Gossypium herbaceum ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"The name Gossypium herbaceum has evidently been applied to American cotton as ... Gossypium herbaceum has leaves with roundish or broadly acuminate lobes, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1909)
"Recent investigations have shown, however, that Gossypium herbaceum is not an ... Gossypium herbaceum "has leaves with roundish or broadly acuminate lobes, ..."

4. Microscopic objects figured and described by John H. Martin (1870)
"Cotton-fibre from Seed (Gossypium herbaceum), x 240. These hairs, or fibres, have been drawn to illustrate the difference between the various kinds of ..."

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