| LC control no. | sh 85033302 |
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| LC classification | QK495.M27 Botany SB245 SB252 Agriculture TS1542 Fibers |
| Topical heading | Cotton |
| Variant(s) | American upland cotton Gossypium Gossypium hirsutum Gossypium mexicanum Hairy cotton Seed cotton Thurberia Upland cotton |
| See also | Malvaceae Plant fibers |
| Subject example tracing | Example under Fiber plants; Field crops; Textile fibers |
| Found in | Web. 3. Hortus 3 (Gossypium, syn: Thurberia; G. hirsutum, syn: G. mexicanum, upland cotton) FAO plants (Gossypium spp., cotton cotton plant; G. hirsutum, syn: upland cotton, hairy cotton) Roecklin profile of econ. plants: p. 131 ((upland cotton, cotton, G. hirsutum, G. mexicanum) (the American upland cotton (G. hirsutum) ... provides the bulk of U.S. cotton)) Ind. nom. gen. (plant.) Engler Syl. Pflanz.: p. 311. Schnepf, Randall Dean, 1954-. Seed cotton as a farm program crop, version 8, 2018: summary (seed cotton--the harvested but un-ginned cotton boll that includes both lint and cottonseed) p. 4 (successful cultivation of cotton results in two products: fiber (or lint) and cottonseed) Encyclopaedia Britannica website, Apr. 1, 2019 (cotton: fibre and plant; seed hair, or cotton fibre, is known as lint; two-thirds of the weight of seed cotton (i.e., the seed with the adhering seed hair) consists of seeds) |
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