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GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
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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