Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gossypium_herbaceum

1 sense of gossypium herbaceum

Sense 1
Levant cotton, Gossypium herbaceum -- (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)
       => cotton, cotton plant -- (erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers)