cotton
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- noun
- /ˈkɑtən/
:
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- The state occupied first place in coffee, cotton, rice, and beans, and second place in maize.
- grow cotton
- cotton farmers
- cotton crop
It was a huge producing region of cotton, silk, and of course, oil.
- It was a huge producing region of cotton, silk, and of course, oil.
- And it is the hands that once picked cotton can now pick presidents.
- Compared to how much water cotton needs to grow, that's a win.
- And we picked cotton, cropped tobacco in the Rule South.
- Yeah, I used to work on corn, soaring cotton, Milo.
- You just don't find it like you find cotton by opening the cotton plant.
Examples
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Compared to how much water cotton needs to grow, that's a win.
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I've weeded, hoed and picked cotton till I can't stand it.
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"In them old cotton fields back home."
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So I was born on a cotton farm in Alabama.
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Large mills in Great Britain and New England were hungry for cotton to mass produce cloth.
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They had close commercial ties with New York where the cotton was taken and sold.
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The Census Bureau estimated the value of the state's 1900 cotton crop at $48.9 million.
Academic text (2015) -
More than 90% of American cotton and 80% of corn crops come from GM seed.
Academic text (2012) -
The year the Mannings reached Washington County, cotton exports totaled 9,532,263 pounds.
Academic text (2011) -
The cotton harvested from the fields was processed to create soft fabrics.
Synonyms
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A bushy plant that produces white round pods with soft fibers used for cloth
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Soft, silky threads from the cotton plant used to make cloth
Idioms
Compounds
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Cotton grown in Egypt with long fibers that is very soft, strong, and long-lasting
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A disease caused by a fungus that makes cottony growths on cranberries
- US
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A large dark mouse that lives in woods and swamps in the southeastern United States
- Indian
Solid material left after oil is taken from cotton seeds used to feed animals or as fertilizer
- US
A small tree with large flowers that change from white or pink to deep red in one day
- Specialized
A small bush that grows in salt marshes and has fruit with white fluffy tufts
A shrub that grows in southern Arizona and Mexico and has seed pods with soft fibers like cotton
- Specialized
A cotton plant with short grey fibers that stick to its seeds and are hard to remove
- Specialized
A type of cotton with long fibers that is soft and strong for high-quality clothes and sheets
- New Zealand
A soft fiber from the inner bark of a New Zealand tree used like cotton
- Indian
A soft plant fiber from a tropical tree used to fill pillows and cushions
- Indian
A tropical tree with large flowers that makes cotton-like seed fibers used for stuffing
- Specialized
A cotton plant that makes very long, soft fibers grown on coastal islands
- Specialized
A kind of cotton with short fibers that people use to make coarse cloth
A soft, light fiber from the kapok tree that people use to fill pillows and keep things warm
A very large tropical tree whose trunk has deep grooves and seed pods of soft, fluffy material used for stuffing
A very large tropical tree with a rough trunk and pods of soft fibers around seeds used for stuffing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cotton comes from an Arabic word qutn meaning 'cotton', and the name travelled into Spanish and French before reaching English. That's why cotton names the plant farmers grow for its soft, white fibers.