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Definition of Peruvian cotton
1. Noun. Cotton with long rough hairy fibers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peruvian Cotton
Literary usage of Peruvian cotton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona by Clements Robert Markham (1880)
"The great advantage that I anticipated from the introduction of Peruvian cotton
into India was the profitable cultivation of a long-stapled and high-priced ..."
2. Peru of the Twentieth Century by Percy Falcke Martin (1911)
"The classes cultivated are various, and may be enumerated as follows: Peruvian
cotton (Gossypium ... Peruvian cotton, or G. Peruvianum, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Peruvian cotton may be divided roughly into five staple classifications: The
so-called "full rough" cotton, coming mostly from the plantations in the Piura ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"and rough Peruvian cotton that of G. peruvianum (Cav.). The cotton plant grows
as a shrub or small tree. ... Peruvian cotton is chiefly of two kinds, ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1863)
"The staple of this Peruvian cotton is longer than that of " Uplands" ... 0-95
1-21 1-08 The Peruvian cotton plant is indigenous and perennial, ..."
6. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1913)
"Santos cotton comes from Brazil; it is not much in demand on account of its
inferior quality.t Peruvian cotton.—Rough Peruvian cotton J has a light creamy ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1863)
"The staple of this Peruvian cotton is longer than that of " Uplands" ... 077 1'02
0'69 The Peruvian cotton plant is indigenous and perennial, ..."
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