cotton-plant
71cotton wool — noun soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state • Syn: ↑cotton, ↑cotton fiber • Derivationally related forms: ↑cottony (for: ↑cotton) • Hypernyms: ↑plan …
72plant fiber — noun fiber derived from plants • Syn: ↑plant fibre • Hypernyms: ↑natural fiber, ↑natural fibre, ↑plant product • Hyponyms: ↑buntal, ↑flax, ↑ …
73plant fibre — noun fiber derived from plants • Syn: ↑plant fiber • Hypernyms: ↑natural fiber, ↑natural fibre, ↑plant product • Hyponyms: ↑buntal, ↑flax, ↑ …
74Cotton Mather — This article is about the 17th century Puritan minister. For the rock band, see Cotton Mather (band). Cotton Mather Cotton Mather, circa 1700 Born February 12, 1663(1663 02 12) …
75Cotton gin — Eli Whitney s cotton gin patent, March 14, 1794 …
76cotton rat — ▪ rodent any of 10 species of terrestrial rodents (rodent) found from the southern United States to northern South America. Cotton rats are stout bodied with small ears, and their coarse, grizzled coats range from grayish brown to dark brown… …
77cotton — The white, fluffy, fibrous covering of the seeds of a plant of the genus Gossypium (family Malvaceae); used extensively in surgical dressings. [Ar. qútun] absorbent c. c. from which all fatty matter has been extracted, so that it readily takes up …
78plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …
79cotton ball — noun a fungus disease of cranberries • Hypernyms: ↑plant disease * * * noun : a disease of the cranberry caused by a fungus (Sclerotinia oxycocci) that forms a cottony mass of mycelium in the center of affected berries * * * cotton ball UK US… …
80Plant — For other uses, see Plant (disambiguation). Plants Temporal range: Early Cambrian to recent, but see text, 520–0 Ma …
