Gossypium barbadense vs cotton

cotton vs Gossypium barbadense

Gossypium barbadense and cotton both are nouns.

Gossypium barbadense is not a verb while cotton is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Gossypium barbadense	Yes	No	No	No
cotton	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cotton is a hypernym of Gossypium barbadense; that is, cotton is a word with a broader meaning than Gossypium barbadense:

Gossypium barbadense: 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
cotton: erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

Other hypernyms of Gossypium barbadense include cotton plant.

Gossypium barbadense (noun)	cotton (noun)
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	fabric woven from cotton fibers
	thread made of cotton fibers
	erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
	soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

Gossypium barbadense (verb)	cotton (verb)
	take a liking to

Difference between Gossypium barbadense and cotton

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