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cotton wool
uncountable noun
Cotton wool is a soft mass of cotton, used especially for applying liquids or creams to your skin.
[British]regional note: in AM, use cottoncotton wool in British English
noun
1. Also called: purified cotton mainly British
bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
Usual US term: absorbent cotton2.
cotton in the natural state
3. British informal
a.
a state of pampered comfort and protection
b.
(as modifier)
a cotton-wool existence
cotton wool in American English
1.
raw cotton
2. US
cotton batting
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British English: cotton wool /ˈkɒtn wʊl/ NOUN
Cotton wool is soft fluffy cotton, often used for applying creams to your skin.
- American English: cotton for applying creams
- Arabic: قُطْن طِبّيّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: algodão hidrófilo
- Chinese: 棉絮
- Croatian: vata
- Czech: vata
- Danish: vat
- Dutch: watten
- European Spanish: algodón
- Finnish: pumpuli
- French: ouate
- German: Watte
- Greek: ακατέργαστο βαμβάκι
- Italian: ovatta
- Japanese: 脱脂綿
- Korean: 솜
- Norwegian: vatt
- Polish: wata
- European Portuguese: algodão hidrófilo
- Romanian: vată de bumbac
- Russian: вата
- Latin American Spanish: algodón en rama
- Swedish: bomull
- Thai: สำลี
- Turkish: pamuk
- Ukrainian: вата
- Vietnamese: bông mềm
Chinese translation of 'cotton wool'
cotton wool
(Brit)
n (u)
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脱(脫)脂棉
(tuōzhī mián)美 = absorbent cotton