Definition of Gossypium hirsutum

1. Noun. Native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton.

Exact synonyms: Upland Cotton
Generic synonyms: Cotton, Cotton Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gossypium Hirsutum

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
Gossypium hirsutum (current term)
Gossypium peruvianum
Gossypium thurberi
Gostivar
Gota Canal
Gotcha Day
Goteborg
Goth
Goth.
Gotha
Gotham
Gothamist
Gothamists
Gothamite
Gothamites

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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