| 单词 | cotton |
| 释义 | cotton n. & v. --n 1. a soft white fibrous substance covering the seeds of certain plants. 2. a (in full cotton plant) such a plant, esp. any of the genus Gossypium. b cotton-plants cultivated as a crop for the fibre or the seeds. 3. thread or cloth made from the fibre. 4. (attrib.) made of cotton. --vintr. (foll. by to) be attracted by (a person). Phrases and idioms cotton-cake compressed cotton seed used as food for cattle. cotton candy US candyfloss. cotton-gin a machine for separating cotton from its seeds. cotton-grass any grasslike plant of the genus Eriophorum, with long white silky hairs. cotton on (often foll. by to) colloq. begin to understand. cotton-picking US sl. unpleasant, wretched. cotton waste refuse yarn used to clean machinery etc. cotton wool 1. esp. Brit. fluffy wadding of a kind orig. made from raw cotton. 2. US raw cotton. Derivatives cottony adj. Etymology: ME f. OF coton f. Arab. kutn |
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