Cotton-wool
61cotton bud — n BrE a small thin stick with ↑cotton wool at each end, used for cleaning places that are hard to reach, such as inside your ears American Equivalent: Q tip …
62Cotton — For other uses, see Cotton (disambiguation). Cotton Hi …
63wool — n. 1) to produce wool 2) to comb; process; sort wool 3) lamb s; steel, wire (BE) wool 4) (BE) cotton wool (AE has absorbent cotton) 5) (misc.) to pull the wool over smb. s eyes ( to deceive smb. ) * * * [wʊl] process sort wool steel …
64cotton ball — noun a fungus disease of cranberries • Hypernyms: ↑plant disease * * * noun : a disease of the cranberry caused by a fungus (Sclerotinia oxycocci) that forms a cottony mass of mycelium in the center of affected berries * * * cotton ball UK US… …
65cotton — cot|ton1 [ˈkɔtn US ˈka:tn] n [U] BrE [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: coton, from Arabic qutn] 1.) cloth or thread made from the white hair of the cotton plant ▪ a white cotton shirt ▪ Made from 100% cotton. 2.) a plant with white hairs on …
66cotton — cot|ton1 [ katn ] noun uncount ** 1. ) cloth made from the white fibers of a plant called a cotton plant a ) only before noun made from cotton cloth: a flowered cotton dress 2. ) a plant grown in warm regions that has white fibers used for making …
67cotton — [[t]kɒ̱t(ə)n[/t]] ♦♦♦ cottons, cottoning, cottoned 1) N MASS: oft N n Cotton is a type of cloth made from soft fibres from a particular plant. ...a cotton shirt. 2) N UNCOUNT Cotton is a plant which is grown in warm countries and which produces… …
68wool — noun (U) 1 the soft thick hair that sheep and some goats have on their body 2 material made from wool: Is this coat wool? | wool jacket/carpet/blanket etc: a pure wool skirt 3 thread made from wool that you use for knitting knit 1 (1) clothes 4… …
69cotton — I UK [ˈkɒt(ə)n] / US [ˈkɑt(ə)n] noun Word forms cotton : singular cotton plural cottons ** 1) [uncountable] cloth made from the white fibres of a plant called a cotton plant a) [only before noun] made from cotton cloth a flowered cotton dress b)… …
70cotton — n. & v. n. 1 a soft white fibrous substance covering the seeds of certain plants. 2 a (in full cotton plant) such a plant, esp. any of the genus Gossypium. b cotton plants cultivated as a crop for the fibre or the seeds. 3 thread or cloth made… …
