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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And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
So they wrapped him in cotton wool, and warmed him over a little fire, and he opened his eyes and sneezed.
He looked at the cotton wool, decided that it was not good to eat, ran all round the table, sat up and put his fur in order, scratched himself, and jumped on the small boy’s shoulder.
They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff.
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