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Paul Ollerton pulled white locks off a cotton boll.
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The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
The bluebonnet has been Texas’ state’s flower since 1901 and beat out the cotton boll and the cactus for that title, according to Texas A&M archives.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
Cotton boll weevils, which originated in Mexico, were first identified in Beeville, Tex., in 1894.
—Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
In October's first computer boll based on ratings from JoeEitel.com, Moeller, Badin and Wyoming are all top seeds in their respective divisions.
—Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2022
Tross posted about the incident on Facebook last week, including a photo of the boll of cotton that her daughter took home from school.
—Justin Murphy, USA TODAY, 2 May 2022
Prior to the storm’s landfall, much of the Louisiana and Mississippi cotton crops were in open boll stage.
—Jim Foerster, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
As children in the 1960s, Collier and his siblings worked the cotton fields around Black Swamp, lugging burlap sacks up and down long rows and pulling white bolls from between the plants’ needle-like stems.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
Many bolls are left unpicked owing to labour shortages.
—The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
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The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
The bluebonnet has been Texas’ state’s flower since 1901 and beat out the cotton boll and the cactus for that title, according to Texas A&M archives.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
Cotton boll weevils, which originated in Mexico, were first identified in Beeville, Tex., in 1894.
—Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
In October's first computer boll based on ratings from JoeEitel.com, Moeller, Badin and Wyoming are all top seeds in their respective divisions.
—Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2022
Tross posted about the incident on Facebook last week, including a photo of the boll of cotton that her daughter took home from school.
—Justin Murphy, USA TODAY, 2 May 2022
Prior to the storm’s landfall, much of the Louisiana and Mississippi cotton crops were in open boll stage.
—Jim Foerster, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
As children in the 1960s, Collier and his siblings worked the cotton fields around Black Swamp, lugging burlap sacks up and down long rows and pulling white bolls from between the plants’ needle-like stems.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
Many bolls are left unpicked owing to labour shortages.
—The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of boll was
in the 15th century
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“Boll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boll. Accessed 31 Mar. 2023.
Kids Definition
boll
noun
: the usually roundish pod of some plants
cotton bolls
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