Examples from literature

• As the blossoms die they are replaced by the young bolls, or pods, which contain the seeds. 
• At first cotton-picking was interesting, the fluffy bolls looking like artificial roses and the stray blossoms strangely shaped and delicately pink. 
• In the autumn you see the pod or boll which contains the cotton. 
• The bolls are placed on racks, and are sun-dried, after which the husks are removed by hand. 
• The top of the cotton stalk glimmered with a purple bloom, but down between the rows, among the dying leaves, the first bolls were opening.