cotton
棉花,棉布,纺织品,棉纱
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- : a soft, white, downy substance consisting of the hairs or fibers attached to the seeds of plants belonging to the genus Gossypium, of the mallow family, used in making fabrics, thread, wadding, etc.
- : the plant itself, having spreading branches and broad, lobed leaves.
- : such plants collectively as a cultivated crop.
- : cloth, thread, a garment, etc., of cotton.
- : any soft, downy substance resembling cotton, but growing on other plants.
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- : Informal. to get on well together; agree.
- : Obsolete. to prosper or succeed.
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- : cotton to, Informal. to become fond of; begin to like.to approve of; agree with: to cotton to a suggestion.to come to a full understanding of; grasp: More and more firms are cottoning on to the advantages of using computers.
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As this basket is woven out of cotton, it can be folded and even carefully ironed if needed.
The team swabbed a roll of clean cotton under each volunteer’s arm for one minute.
In the next few months, the team, led by senior research scientist, Colleen MacMillan, will coax the tissue into full-grown cotton plants.
As far back as 1993, people were talking about adding color genes to cotton.
A cotton mask with a cotton batting filter, for example, initially filtered out roughly 33 percent of the salt particles.
Tom Cotton credits Harvard as the place where he “discovered political philosophy as a way of life.”
With a pop of color and fun print, this cotton pair is not at all stuffy.
May we suggest Friendly Fox, a crotched animal made from 100-percent cotton.
For instance, in Arkansas, a projected 57 percent of voters backed Republican Tom Cotton for the Senate.
In his victory speech Tuesday night, Cotton declared, “The people of Arkansas have made their choice.”
This would in any event have depressed prices of cotton, even under ordinary conditions.
exchanges reopened on November 16, and stock exchanges opened for restricted trading shortly thereafter.