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Definition of Gossypium arboreum
1. Noun. East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gossypium Arboreum
Literary usage of Gossypium arboreum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wild and Cultivated Cotton Plants of the World: A Revision of the Genus by George Watt (1907)
"G. arborescent of Burlamaqui - G. brasiliense, Mac./., 309. Gossypium arboreum :
Пит- ... Gossypium arboreum, Linn., var. ..."
2. Textiles by Paul Henry Nystrom (1916)
"The gossypium arboreum grows to a height of from fifteen to twenty feet.
The gossypium barbadense differs from the other cottons in that its seeds are not ..."
3. Textiles: A Handbook for the Student and the Consumer by Mary Schenck Woolman, Ellen Beers Mcgowan (1920)
"Gossypium arboreum and neglectum. — These species are much alike, ... The Gossypium
religiosum is thought by some to be the same as the Gossypium arboreum. ..."
4. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1855)
"... is the Gossypium arboreum, but in nearly all the capsules I have examined there
... in the characters of Gossypium arboreum, given in Dr. Royle's work. ..."
5. The Natural History of the Raw Materials of Commerce: With a Copious List of by John Yeats (1878)
"THE COTTON TREE (Gossypium arboreum).—The cotton tree inhabits India, China,
Egypt, the coast of Africa, and some places in America. ..."
6. A Reader in Botany by Jane Hancox Newell (1889)
"Gossypium arboreum ; native of India. " Herbaceum. " Religiosum. " Barbadense :
sea island, long-stapled cotton; native of the Bahama Islands. ..."
7. The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845)
"supposes the Gossypium arboreum of Linnaeus, the Cotton Tree, to be meant in the
latter, though not in the former. The description of Theophrastus is ..."
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