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Gossypium

noun

herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton

• Syn: ↑genus Gossypium

• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Malvaceae, ↑family Malvaceae, ↑mallow family

• Member Meronyms: ↑cotton, ↑cotton plant

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\\gäˈsipēəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin gossypion cotton

: a genus of herbs or shrubs of the family Malvaceae yielding the cotton of commerce and having mostly palmately lobed leaves, showy flowers, and capsular fruits containing long-tailed seeds

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Gossypium /go-sipˈi-əm/

noun

A tropical genus of the mallow family, yielding cotton

ORIGIN: L gossypion

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gossˈypine adjective

Cottony

gossˈypol noun

A poisonous substance in cottonseed

Useful english dictionary. 2012.