cotton stainer | a true bug: bug that damages and stains the lint of developing cotton |
cotton strain | feeds primarily on cotton |
corn earworm cotton bollworm tomato fruitworm tobacco budworm vetchworm Heliothis zia | larva of a noctuid moth, highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops |
cotton mouse Peromyscus gossypinus | large dark mouse of southeastern United States |
cotton rat Sigmodon hispidus | destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America |
Old World beaver Castor fiber | a European variety of beaver |
cotton | fabric woven from cotton fibers |
cotton | thread made of cotton fibers |
cotton flannel Canton flannel | a stout cotton fabric with nap on only one side |
cotton gin gin | a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers |
cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
fiber fibre vulcanized fiber | a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth |
fiber optic cable fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
fiber-optic transmission system fibre-optic transmission system FOTS | a communication system using fiber optic cables |
optical fiber glass fiber optical fibre glass fibre | a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light, used in bundles to transmit images |
character fiber fibre | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions, education has for its object the formation of character- Herbert Spencer |
fiber fibre | any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) |
Purkinje fiber | a specialized cardiac muscle fiber that is part of the Purkinje network |
muscle cell muscle fiber muscle fibre | an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body |
striated muscle cell striated muscle fiber | an elongated contractile cell in striated muscle tissue |
nerve fiber nerve fibre | a threadlike extension of a nerve cell |
medullated nerve fiber myelinated nerve fiber | a nerve fiber encased in a sheath of myelin |
motor neuron efferent neuron motor nerve fiber motoneuron | a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord |
motor fiber efferent fiber | a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands |
sensory fiber afferent fiber | a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system |
fiber bundle fibre bundle fascicle fasciculus | a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) |
fiber optics fiberoptics fibre optics fibreoptics | the transmission of light signals via glass fibers |
roughage fiber | coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients, its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis |
cotton candy spun sugar candyfloss | a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature |
groundsel tree groundsel bush consumption weed cotton-seed tree Baccharis halimifolia | a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies, fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts |
cotton rose cudweed filago | any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads |
cotton thistle woolly thistle Scotch thistle Onopordum acanthium Onopordon acanthium | biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers, naturalized in North America |
lavender cotton Santolina chamaecyparissus | branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers |
cotton grass cotton rush | any sedge of the genus Eriophorum, north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes |
common cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium | having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes |
cotton cotton plant | erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers |
tree cotton Gossypium arboreum | East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms |
sea island cotton tree cotton Gossypium barbadense | small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States, yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers |
Levant cotton Gossypium herbaceum | Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty, considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons |
upland cotton Gossypium hirsutum | native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton |
Peruvian cotton Gossypium peruvianum | cotton with long rough hairy fibers |
Egyptian cotton | fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt, believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton |
wild cotton Arizona wild cotton Gossypium thurberi | shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico |
cotton rose Confederate rose Confederate rose mallow Hibiscus mutabilis | Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night, widely cultivated, naturalized in southeastern United States |
New Zealand cotton | a fiber from the bast of New Zealand ribbon trees that resembles cotton fiber |
bast bast fiber | strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants |
cotton ball | a fungus disease of cranberries |
absorbent cotton | cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax |
cottonseed cake cotton cake | the solid matter remaining after oil has been pressed from cottonseeds |
fiber fibre | a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |