cottonseed - seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil

genus Gossypium, Gossypium - herbs and shrubs and small trees: 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 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 grayish 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 long-stable somewhat brownish 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

bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches