| 单词 | cotton |
| 释义 | cotton (once / 178 pages) 1n 2v Cotton is a plant that grows the soft, fluffy fibers that are used to make the fabric also known as cotton. Cotton grows best in very warm climates. Cotton is a hugely important fiber, since it's used to make all kinds of clothing, bedding, and other things we use regularly. Your t-shirt, jeans, underwear, and socks are probably all made, at least in part, from cotton, and so is your bath towel, pillow case, and the curtains on your windows. If you use cotton as a verb, it's an informal way to say "take a liking to." This meaning has a Welsh root, cytuno, "agree." WORD FAMILYcotton: cottoned, cottoning, cottons, cottony USAGE EXAMPLESSome fans thought Western’s record deserved even more recognition than a top 15 spot and a Cotton Bowl berth. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) I top it off with a High Cotton ESB, a local brew. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Then he returned to picking cotton in the fields of southern Arizona, where the summer sun pounded like a hammer on his back. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers Syn|Hypo|Hyper cotton plant Gossypium arboreum, tree cotton East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms Gossypium barbadense, sea island cotton, tree cottonsmall bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers Gossypium herbaceum, Levant cottonOld World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons Gossypium hirsutum, upland cottonnative tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton Gossypium peruvianum, Peruvian cottoncotton with long rough hairy fibers Egyptian cottonfine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi, wild cottonshrub of southern Arizona and Mexico bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems 2n soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state Syn|Hypo|Hyper cotton fiber, cotton wool absorbent cotton cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax long-staple cottoncotton with relatively long fibers short-staple cottoncotton with relatively short fibers plant fiber, plant fibre fiber derived from plants 3n fabric woven from cotton fibers Hypo|Hyper gauze, gauze bandage (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings petrolatum gauzegauze saturated with petrolatum cloth, fabric, material, textile artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers 4n thread made of cotton fibers 2Hypo|Hyper lisle, lisle thread a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton) thread, yarn a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving v take a liking to cotton to something Hyper like find enjoyable or agreeable |
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