单词 | cotton wool |
释义 | cotton wool (once / 15511 pages) n WORD FAMILY cotton wool: cotton wools USAGE EXAMPLESAbove, clouds like dyed cotton wool hang low, so low I feel I can reach out and squeeze the moisture from them. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) In Shaanxi province, officials were recently accused of stuffing pollution-monitoring equipment with cotton wool to filter out impurities, reports the South China Morning Post. Time(Oct 25, 2016) The two-part garments were initially made out of old nylon parachutes, tissue wadding and cotton wool. BBC(Oct 19, 2016) n soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state Syn|Hypo|Hyper cotton, cotton fiber 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 |
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