Gossypol

//ɡɒs.ɪ.pɒl// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a class of toxic polyphenols found in the seeds of the cotton plant. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin gossypium (“cotton”) + -ol.

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