cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒt.n̩/
ipa: [ˈkʰɒt.n̩]
ipa: /ˈkɑt.n̩/
ipa: [ˈkɑ.ʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɒtən
homophone: Cotten
Forms: form: cottons
Etymology: From Middle English cotoun, from Anglo-Norman cotun, Old French coton, from (Genoese) Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).
Senses: glosses: fibrous substance
A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
glosses: fibrous substance
Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
examples: text: K'a-shih has the most extensive cotton-growing area which amounted to 950 000 mou (6.3 million ares) in 1965.
ref: 1976, Chuen-Yan David Lai, “Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang”, in Pacific Viewpoint, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2020, page 162:
glosses: plant source
A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
glosses: plant source
Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
examples: text: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: manufactured product of such substance
Textiles made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
examples: text: The little girls appeared, looking fresh and cool in pretty pink cottons, and we two elder ones seized the opportunity of making a more elaborate toilette than usual.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 34:
glosses: manufactured product of such substance
An item of clothing made from such textiles.
glosses: manufactured product of such substance
Thread of such fiber.
glosses: manufactured product of such substance
A wick of a candle.
Derived terms: word: absorbent cotton
taxonomic: Gomphocarpus fruticosus
word: balloon cotton
word: black cotton soil
word: bless someone's cotton socks
taxonomic: Eriophorum angustifolium
word: bog cotton
word: cellucotton
word: cotton ball
word: Cotton Belt
word: cotton blend
word: cotton boll
word: cotton bollworm
word: cotton bud
alt: Kochia aphylla
word: cotton bush
word: cotton candy
word: cotton-candy
word: cotton card
word: cotton ceiling
word: Cotton County
word: cotton fever
word: cottonfield
alt: Pseudatomoscelis seriatus
word: cotton fleahopper
word: cotton gin
taxonomic: Eriophorum spp.
word: cottongrass
word: cottonize
word: cotton lavender
word: cottonless
word: cottonlike
word: cotton mill
taxonomic: Peromyscus gossypinus
word: cotton mouse
taxonomic: Agkistrodon piscivorus
word: cottonmouth
word: cottonness
word: cottonocracy
word: cottonoid
word: Cottonopolis
word: cottonous
word: cotton pad
word: cotton picker
word: cotton-picking
word: cottonpox
word: cotton pox
taxonomic: Nettapus coromandelianus
word: cotton pygmy goose
english: Sigmodontini
translation: Sigmodontini
word: cotton rat
word: cotton reel
alt: Phymatotrichopsis omnivora
word: cotton root rot
word: cottonrose
taxonomic: Hibiscus mutabilis
word: cotton rose
taxonomic: Eriophorum spp.
word: cotton rush
taxonomic: Pulvinaria innumerabilis
word: cotton scale
taxonomic: Eriophorum spp.
word: cottonsedge
word: cottonseed
word: cotton seedling thrips
taxonomic: Dryandra nivea
word: cotton shrub
word: cotton-spinner
taxonomic: Pyrrhocoridae spp.
word: cotton stainer
word: cotton stripper
word: cotton swab
taxonomic: Sylvilagus spp.
word: cottontail
taxonomic: Onopordum spp.
word: cotton thistle
word: cottontop
taxonomic: Eriophorum spp.
word: cotton-top
word: cotton tree
word: cotton velvet
word: cotton wax
word: cottonwear
taxonomic: Froelichia spp.
word: cottonweed
taxonomic: Haemulon malanurum
word: cottonwick
taxonomic: Populus spp.
word: cottonwood
word: cotton wool ball
word: cotton wool bud
word: cotton wool
word: cotton-wool
word: cotton-wooly
taxonomic: Alabama argillacea
word: cotton worm
word: devil's cotton
word: Egyptian cotton
word: flax cotton
word: gun cotton
word: guncotton
word: high cotton
taxonomic: Ceiba pentandra
word: Java cotton
taxonomic: Santolina chamaecyparissus
word: lavender cotton
taxonomic: Gossypium herbaceum
word: Levant cotton
word: mineral cotton
word: New Zealand cotton
word: nitrocotton
word: noncotton
word: one's cotton socks off
word: out of one's cotton-picking mind
taxonomic: Gossypium peruvianum
word: Peruvian cotton
word: polycotton
word: pyrocotton
word: red cotton tree
word: red cotton-tree
word: ride the cotton bicycle
word: ride the cotton horse
word: ride the cotton pony
taxonomic: Gossypium barbadense
word: Sea Island cotton
word: silk-cotton tree
taxonomic: Gossypium arboreum
word: tree cotton
taxonomic: Gossypium hirsutum
word: upland cotton
word: waxed cotton
taxonomic: Gomphocarpus spp. etc.
word: wild cotton