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Definition of Gossypium
1. Noun. Herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Malvaceae, Mallow Family, Malvaceae
Member holonyms: Cotton, Cotton Plant
Definition of Gossypium
1. n. A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these.
Medical Definition of Gossypium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gossypium
Literary usage of Gossypium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"Petals white. Seeds disconnected, glabrous after the removal of the fulvous cotton
fibre, which secedes not with readiness. gossypium tomentosum, Nuttall. ..."
2. A Guide to therapeutics and materia medica by Robert Farquharson, Woodbury, Frank (1879)
"jT/ie bark of gossypium herbaceum, and of other species of gossypium, ... [A
filamentous substance separated from the. seed of gossypium herbaceum, ..."
3. A Treatise on Pharmacy: Designed as a Text-book for the Student, and as a by Edward Parrish (1884)
"gossypium. (Cotton.) (Purified Cotton. Absorbent Cotton.) The hairs of the seed
of gossypium herbaceum, Linné, ..."
4. 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 ..."
5. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated by Andrew Ure (1836)
"... the gossypium Barbadense, or the West India cotton, belongs to the ...
belongs to quite another family of plants from the gossypium. ..."
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