cotton
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒt.n̩/
The English word “cotton” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- A wick of a candle.
adjective
- Made of cotton.
verb
- To provide with cotton.
- To supply with a cotton wick.
- To fill with a wad of cotton.
- To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
- To cover walls with fabric.
- To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
- To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
- To develop a porous, cottony texture.
- To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
- To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
Etymology
From Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun), from Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת (kuttṓnĕṯ).
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