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cotton

  • noun
  • cot·ton
  • /ˈkɒt.n̩/

A fibrous substance

Other meanings

  1. A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.

  2. Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.

Word history

From Hebrew "כֻּתֹּנֶת".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “cotton” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.