boll
/bəʊl
/noun
The rounded seed capsule of plants such as cotton or flax.Total boll numbers and seed cotton mass per metre were recorded....
- Generally, the ovaries of the flowers and the rinds of the cotton bolls, which are favoured by the bollworm, contained the least amount of toxin, while leaves contained the highest levels.
- By maturity, the mutant seeds had only produced a few short fibres and the seeds were visible from the mature cotton bolls.
Origin
Middle English (originally denoting a bubble): from Middle Dutch bolle 'rounded object'; related to bowl1.
Rhymes
- portionless
- portion money
- portière
- portièred
- Port Jackson
- Port Jackson willow
- Portland
- Portland arrowroot
- Portland beds
- Portland cement
- Portlandian
- Portland, Isle of
- portlandite
- Portland limestone
- Portland oolite
- Portland Place
- Portland sago
- Portland sand
- Portland screw
- Portland spurge
- Portland stone
- Portland vase
- Portlaoighise
- Portlaoise
- port-last