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Definition: Meaning of, cotton in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈkɒt(ə)n /

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cotton cottons
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  1. cloth or thread made from the white hair of the cotton plant
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  2. a plant with white hairs on its seeds that are used for making cotton cloth and thread
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  3. British English thread used for sewing
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  4. American English COTTON WOOL
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
cotton cottoned cottoned
Present Participle Third Person Singular
cottoning cottons
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cotton used in phrases

  • Arizona wild cotton (noun)
    1. shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico
  • Cotton Belt
    1. the Cotton Belt an area in the southern US where cotton is grown
  • Cotton Bowl, the
    1. an important college football game held every year in Dallas, Texas
  • Egyptian cotton (noun)
    1. fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton
  • Levant cotton (noun)
    1. old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons
  • Mather, Cotton
    1. (1663-1728) a US Christian leader who was a PURITAN . He supported the SALEM Witch Trials in 1692, when a court in SALEM, Massachusetts, decided that 20 people were guilty of WITCHCRAFT (= using magic for evil purposes) and killed them as punishment.
  • New Zealand cotton (noun)
    1. a fibre from the bast of New Zealand ribbon trees that resembles cotton fibre
  • Peruvian cotton (noun)
    1. cotton with long rough hairy fibers
  • absorbent cotton (noun)
    1. cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax
    2. soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
  • common cotton grass (noun)
    1. having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
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