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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Levant cotton
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]