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cottony, a.|ˈkɒt(ə)nɪ|
[f. cotton n. + -y.]
1. a. Covered with a soft down or fine hairy nap or pubescence like cotton-wool.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxi. 88 With small, narrow, & very softe cottonie leaues. 1611Cotgr., Lanugineux..Cottonie, downie, mossie. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 142 The Cottony sides of their leaves. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 558 Leaves..cottony underneath. 1876Harley Mat. Med. 415 Amental Exogens, with..numerous cottony seeds.
b. cottony cushion-scale = cushion-scale.
1886[see cushion-scale s.v. cushion n. 11]. 1931Discovery Sept. 299/1 The success of an Australian ladybird in California against the cottony cushion scale. 1952[see Australian lady-bird].
2. Resembling cotton, of the nature of cotton; soft, downy, and white like cotton.
1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 28 Oaks bear also a knur, full of a cottony matter, of which they anciently made wick for their lamps and candles. 1727Philip Quarll 170 The Grass being of a soft cottony Nature. a1851Audubon in Coues Birds N.W. (1874) 74 Lined with the cottony or silky substance that falls from the cotton-wood tree. |