gossypol
/ɡɑs.ɪˌpɔl/noun
gossypol is a noun meaning “Any of a class of toxic polyphenols found in the seeds of the cotton plant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-S-S-Y-P-O-L and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gossypol is gossypols.
What does gossypol mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of toxic polyphenols found in the seeds of the cotton plant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gossypol?
- UK /ɡɒs.ɪ.pɒl/
- US /ɡɑs.ɪˌpɔl/
Gossypol has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gossypol
- gossypols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gossypol?
Gossypol appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does gossypol come from?
From Latin gossypium (“cotton”) + English -ol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).