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cotton

Entries 1 to 10 of 17.

  1. 1cotton (noun)
  2. 2cotton (intransitive verb)
  3. Cotton
  4. Cotton
  5. cotton bollworm
  6. cotton candy
  7. cotton gin
  8. cotton grass
  9. cotton–picking
  10. cotton stainer

Main Entry:
1cot·ton Listen to the pronunciation of 1cotton
Pronunciation:
\ˈkä-tən\
Function:
noun
Usage:
often attributive
Etymology:
Middle English coton, from Anglo-French cotun, from Old Italian cotone, from Arabic quṭun, quṭn
Date:
14th century
1 a: a soft usually white fibrous substance composed of the hairs surrounding the seeds of various erect freely branching tropical plants (genus Gossypium) of the mallow family b: a plant producing cotton ; especially : one grown for its cotton c: a crop of cotton2 a: fabric made of cotton b: yarn spun from cotton3: a downy cottony substance produced by various plants (as the cottonwood)
[cotton illustration]
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