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Mulch plants with dry, weed-free grass clippings, straw, cottonseed hulls, or wood chips to control weeds and conserve soil moisture.—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 May 2026 What to know about the seed oil panic Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called canola, corn, soybean, sunflower, cottonseed, and grapeseed oils the most unhealthy aspect of the American diet.—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 22 May 2026 Cotton linters—the short fibers left on cottonseed after ginning—can be processed into nitrocellulose, a highly volatile, nitrogen-rich material known as guncotton that’s used as a primary ingredient in solid rocket propellants for ballistic missiles.—Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 27 Apr. 2026 Some growers use a cottonseed meal/bloodmeal homemade blend.—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cottonseed