cotton plant

/ˌkɑtn plænt/

Other forms: cotton plants

Definitions of cotton plant

1. noun

   erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
   synonyms: cotton

   types:

   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

   type of:

   bush, shrub

   a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems