cottonyadj.
/ˈkɒt(ə)ni/ 1.
a. Covered with a soft down or fine hairy nap or pubescence like cotton-wool.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > soft and fluffy > on surface
downed1576
cottony1578
lanuginous?1578
lanuginose1693
fluey1861
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxi. 88 With small, narrow, & very softe cottonie leaues.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lanugineux,..Cottonie, downie, mossie.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. vi. ii. 142 The Cottony sides of their leaves.
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 558 Leaves..cottony underneath.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 415 Amental Exogens, with..numerous cottony seeds.
b. cottony cushion-scale n. = cushion-scale n. at cushion n. Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Coccidae or genus Coccus > member of (scale)
scale1822
larch-scale1831
scale-insect1840
mussel scale1853
black scale1880
cottony cushion-scale1886
cushion-scale1886
coccid1892
1886 Rep. Comm. Agric. Washington U.S. 466 The Cottony Cushion-scale is found only in California, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
1931 Discovery Sept. 299/1 The success of an Australian ladybird in California against the cottony cushion scale.
1952 Mitchell in Chambers's Shorter Eng. Dict. Suppl. Australian ladybird, a small blue and orange beetle introduced into California in 1888 to combat the cottony-cushion scale.
2. Resembling cotton, of the nature of cotton; soft, downy, and white like cotton.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > cotton > [adjective] > resembling
cottonary1658
cottonous1664
cottony1664
cotton-woolly1915
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > soft and fluffy
mossy1561
downy1578
mosy1578
thrummy1597
cotton wool1648
cottonary1658
cottonous1664
cottony1664
tozy1706
flewsey1712
fuzzy1713
furzy1720
floscular1822
fuffy1824
fluffy1825
flossy1845
flocculent1870
furry1876
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > as cotton
cottonary1658
cottonous1664
cottony1664
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 28 Oaks bear also a knur, full of a cottony matter, of which they anciently made wick for their lamps and candles.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 170 The Grass being of a soft cottony Nature.
a1851 Audubon in Coues Birds N.W. (1874) 74 Lined with the cottony or silky substance that falls from the cotton-wood tree.
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