Levant cotton

Definitions of Levant cotton
  1. noun
    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
    synonyms: Gossypium herbaceum
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    type of:
    cotton, cotton plant
    erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
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