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Definition of Gossypium hirsutum
1. Noun. Native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gossypium Hirsutum
Literary usage of Gossypium hirsutum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"Gossypium hirsutum has acutely lobed leaves, white flowers, turning purple (but
rarely with purple at the base of the petals) deeply cleft bracts, ..."
2. Textiles by Paul Henry Nystrom (1916)
"These four kinds of cotton are: herb cotton, called by botanists gossypium
herbaceum; shrub cotton, called gossypium hirsutum; tree cotton, ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1907)
"Gossypium hirsutum. Cotton. From Guatemala. Received thru Mr. OF Cook, March 17,
1905. ... Gossypium hirsutum. Cotton. From Retalhuleu, Guatemala. ..."
4. A Reader in Botany by Jane Hancox Newell (1889)
"Another species, Gossypium hirsutum (Fig. ... These long-staple and short-staple
cottons, Gossypium Barbadense and Gossypium hirsutum, of the Bahamas and of ..."
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