GOSSYPIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gossypium mean? 

• GOSSYPIUM (noun)
  The noun GOSSYPIUM has 1 sense:

1. herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton

  Familiarity information: GOSSYPIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOSSYPIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Gossypium; Gossypium

Hypernyms ("Gossypium" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Gossypium"):

cotton; cotton plant (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)

Holonyms ("Gossypium" is a member of...):

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the seeds of Gossypium herbaceum.

(Levant Cottonseed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a form of a chemical taken from the seed of the cotton plant (Gossypium).

(Gossypol acetic acid, NCI Dictionary)

The edible oil extracted from the seeds of Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum.

(Cottonseed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

It comes from the seed of the cotton plant (Gossypium).

(Cottonseed meal toxin, NCI Dictionary)