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LEVANT COTTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Levant cotton mean?
• LEVANT COTTON (noun)
The noun LEVANT COTTON has 1 sense:
1. Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons
Familiarity information: LEVANT COTTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gossypium herbaceum; Levant cotton
Hypernyms ("Levant cotton" is a kind of...):
cotton; cotton plant (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)
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