cottonseed
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- noun
- /ˈkɑtənˌsid/
- Specialized
:
semilla de algodón
- They'd been feeding cattle out in the winter pasture, hay bales, and pellets of cottonseed cake, scattering the cake in the feedbunks.
- cottonseed oil
- cottonseed meal
- whole cottonseed
Examples
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Hybrid cottonseed is produced by cross-fertilizing the flowers of two different varieties of cotton manually.
Academic text (2004) -
I'm going out and I'm buying $15 worth of cottonseed.
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Cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls.
Fiction book (1996) -
Some also add cocoa and cottonseed meals, hulls, and biodynamic preparations as inoculants.
Academic text (1995) -
In past studies, the chemical composition of cottonseed revealed 52% oil in cottonseed (O'Brien, 2004; O'Brien and Wakelyn, 2005).
Academic text (2015) -
Linoleic acid is an unsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, a colorless liquid at room temperature, and is an important element of cottonseed oil.
Academic text (2015) -
Farmers often use cottonseed to grow new cotton crops for their fields.
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The cottonseed is processed to extract oil and produce animal feed.
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Adding cottonseed meal to the soil can improve its nutrient content for better plant growth.
Compounds
- Specialized
Solid material left after people remove oil from cotton seeds used to feed animals or help plants grow
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cottonseed is simply two words joined: cotton (the soft plant used to make cloth) and seed ('plant baby'). So a cottonseed is literally the 'seed of the cotton plant', which is why it is used to plant new crops or to make oil and meal.