cotton plant

1. Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers (synset 112196466)
   is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
   subtypes:

   • gossypium arboreum, tree cotton - East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms
   • gossypium barbadense, sea island cotton, tree cotton - small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers
   • gossypium herbaceum, levant cotton - 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
   • gossypium hirsutum, upland cotton - native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton
   • gossypium peruvianum, peruvian cotton - cotton with long rough hairy fibers
   • egyptian cotton - fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton
   • arizona wild cotton, gossypium thurberi, wild cotton - shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico
   belongs to: genus gossypium, gossypium - herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton
   has: cottonseed - seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil
   same as: cotton

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