lavender cotton
- noun
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lavanda
- Dried lavender cotton can be used in herbal sachets for its pleasant scent.
Examples
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The garden is filled with beautiful lavender cotton.
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The gardener planted lavender cotton to add fragrance and color to the border.
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Lavender cotton thrives in well-drained, sunny locations typical of Mediterranean climates.
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I love the scent of lavender cotton in the summer.
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The garden was brightened by clusters of lavender cotton with its soft, yellow flowers.
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In the coastal landscape, lavender cotton thrives, adding a beautiful touch to the rocky soil.
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The aromatic scent of lavender cotton filled the air as we walked through the Mediterranean gardens.
Synonyms
A small shrub with woolly grey leaves, yellow flowers, and a strong smell often called cotton lavender
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound clearly signals a plant and combines 'lavender' (aromatic plant) with 'cotton' (suggesting cotton-like, woolly texture), so learners can infer it's some kind of plant related to lavender. However, the precise botanical sense (a specific branching Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and yellow flowers) is lexicalized and not fully predictable from the parts, so a B1 learner would get a partial but incomplete understanding.
Etymology
Lavender cotton gets its name from the plant's soft, woolly leaves that look like cotton and from its gentle scent like lavender. So the name helps you remember that it is a small, aromatic shrub.