单词 | cotton plant |
释义 | cotton plant (once / 39530 pages) n WORD FAMILY cotton plant: cotton plants USAGE EXAMPLESWorkers in cotton plants and the gas industry, employees of the parliament and the ministries - all were involved. BBC(Dec 10, 2016) Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, Tharpe toured the revival circuit with her mother before becoming the first gospel recording star. The New Yorker(Aug 26, 2016) An insecticide widely used on cotton plants and citrus groves can harm bees that come into contact with those crops under certain conditions, the U.S. Reuters(Jan 06, 2016) n erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers Syn|Hypo|Hyper cotton 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 cottonsmall 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 cottonOld 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 cottonnative tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton Gossypium peruvianum, Peruvian cottoncotton with long rough hairy fibers Egyptian cottonfine 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 cottonshrub of southern Arizona and Mexico bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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