boll weevil Anthonomus grandis | greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton |
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 |
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 |
cotton candy spun sugar candyfloss | a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature |
boll | the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant |
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 |
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 |
cotton cotton fiber cotton wool | soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state |
long-staple cotton | cotton with relatively long fibers |
short-staple cotton | cotton with relatively short fibers |
kapok silk cotton vegetable silk | a plant fiber from the kapok tree, used for stuffing and insulation |
red silk cotton | a plant fiber from the red silkotton tree of eastern India, inferior to kapok |
catch on get wise get onto tumble latch on cotton on twig get it | understand, usually after some initial difficulty, She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on |
cotton | take a liking to, cotton to something |
cozy up cotton up shine up play up sidle up suck up | ingratiate oneself to, often with insincere behavior, She is playing up to the chairman |