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Gossypium
(gcide) | Gossypium \Gos*syp"i*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. gossypion, gossipion.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The
species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given
to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island
cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety.
There are several other kinds besides these.
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gossypium
(wn) | Gossypium
n 1: herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton [syn: Gossypium,
genus Gossypium] |
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Gossypium herbaceum
(gcide) | Cotton \Cot"ton\ (k[o^]t"t'n), n. [F. coton, Sp. algodon the
cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr.
Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton.]
1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting
of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds
of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber
sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two
thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
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2. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
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3. Cloth made of cotton.
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Note: Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a
sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cotton
bagging; cotton cloth; cotton goods; cotton industry;
cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick.
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Cotton cambric. See Cambric, n., 2.
Cotton flannel, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton
fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it
is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel.
Cotton gin, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton,
invented by Eli Whitney.
Cotton grass (Bot.), a genus of plants (Eriphorum) of the
Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles
surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate
at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton.
Cotton mouse (Zool.), a field mouse ({Hesperomys
gossypinus}), injurious to cotton crops.
Cotton plant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gossypium, of
several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing
the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally
Asiatic, is Gossypium herbaceum.
Cotton press, a building and machinery in which cotton
bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a
press for baling cotton.
Cotton rose (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs (Filago),
covered with a white substance resembling cotton.
Cotton scale (Zool.), a species of bark louse ({Pulvinaria
innumerabilis}), which does great damage to the cotton
plant.
Cotton shrub. Same as Cotton plant.
Cotton stainer (Zool.), a species of hemipterous insect
(Dysdercus suturellus), which seriously damages growing
cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug.
Cotton thistle (Bot.), the Scotch thistle. See under
Thistle.
Cotton velvet, velvet in which the warp and woof are both
of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made
wholly of cotton.
Cotton waste, the refuse of cotton mills.
Cotton wool, cotton in its raw or woolly state.
Cotton worm (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect ({Aletia
argillacea}), which in the larval state does great damage
to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on
corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and
Southern army worm.
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Gossypium religiosum
(gcide) | Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally
manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), in China.] [Written also
nankin.]
1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought
from China, made of a species of cotton ({Gossypium
religiosum}) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color
quite indestructible and permanent.
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2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
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3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
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Nankeen bird (Zool.), the Australian night heron
(Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
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genus gossypium
(wn) | genus Gossypium
n 1: herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton [syn: Gossypium,
genus Gossypium] |
gossypium
(wn) | Gossypium
n 1: herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton [syn: Gossypium,
genus Gossypium] |
gossypium arboreum
(wn) | Gossypium arboreum
n 1: East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for
its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms [syn: {tree
cotton}, Gossypium arboreum] |
gossypium barbadense
(wn) | Gossypium barbadense
n 1: 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 [syn: {sea island
cotton}, tree cotton, Gossypium barbadense] |
gossypium herbaceum
(wn) | Gossypium herbaceum
n 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 [syn: {Levant
cotton}, Gossypium herbaceum] |
gossypium hirsutum
(wn) | Gossypium hirsutum
n 1: native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United
States yielding short-staple cotton [syn: upland cotton,
Gossypium hirsutum] |
gossypium peruvianum
(wn) | Gossypium peruvianum
n 1: cotton with long rough hairy fibers [syn: {Peruvian
cotton}, Gossypium peruvianum] |
gossypium thurberi
(wn) | Gossypium thurberi
n 1: shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico [syn: wild cotton,
Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi] |
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