cotton
/ˈkɑt.n̩/ noun B1- A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
- Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
- A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
- Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
- Textiles made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
- An item of clothing made from such textiles.
- A small piece of cotton used as a filter when drawing up a drug into a syringe.
- Thread of such fiber.
Plural cottons
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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From amid a tuft of cotton grass which bore it up out of the slime some dark thing was projecting.
I know she was loaded with cotton, and that she took in her freight at Alexandria from Pastret’s warehouse, and at Smyrna from Pascal’s; that is all I was obliged to know, and I beg I may not be asked for any further particulars.”
The prisoner himself is named Edmond Dantès, mate on board the three-master the Pharaon, trading in cotton with Alexandria and Smyrna, and belonging to Morrel & Son, of Marseilles.”
It was really a ball of cotton, but when oil was poured upon it the ball burned fiercely.
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