Definition of Gossypium peruvianum

1. Noun. Cotton with long rough hairy fibers.

Exact synonyms: Peruvian Cotton
Generic synonyms: Cotton, Cotton Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gossypium Peruvianum

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Gosselin's fracture
Gossypium arboreum
Gossypium barbadense
Gossypium herbaceum
Gossypium hirsutum
Gossypium peruvianum (current term)
Gossypium thurberi
Gostivar
Gota Canal
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Goteborg
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Gotha
Gotham
Gothamist
Gothamists
Gothamite
Gothamites
Gothenburg

Literary usage of Gossypium peruvianum

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

1. The Home and Foreign Review (1863)
"The cottons used in commerce, however, have been reduced by Dr. Royle to three—gossypium Barbadense, gossypium Indicum, and gossypium Peruvianum. ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"These species are Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium peruvianum, arborescent species grown only in the tropics; ..."

3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"It is that cultivated in the Mediterranean region, and must have beeil the species taken to America from Smyrna. Gossypium peruvianum. ..."

4. Productive Farm Crops by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1916)
"4. Gossypium arboreum, found in Ceylon, Arabia, South America, etc. 5. Gossypium Peruvianum, the native varieties of Peru and Brazil. 6. ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"... and Egyptian cotton, cultivated in Egypt and recently introduced in the colonies in both East and West Africa. Gossypium peruvianum, Cav. ..."

6. Viti: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian Or Fijian Islands, in by Berthold Seemann (1862)
"There are two kinds of kidney-cotton, one (Gossypium peruvianum, Cav.) having naked, the other (Gossypium sp. nov.?) mossy seeds. ..."

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