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GOSSYPIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton

Synonyms:

genus Gossypium; Gossypium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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