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cottoned Definition


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cotton
noun
    1a. A shrubby plant with broad lobed leaves and egg-shaped seed pods, cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for the creamy-white downy fibres which surround its seeds;
    1b. A number of these plants collectively.
    2. The soft white fibre obtained from this plant, used in the production of textiles.
    3. The cloth or yarn that is woven from fibres obtained from this plant.
adj
    1. Made from cotton.
verb
    cottoned, cottoning
    1. colloq
      To begin to understand it.
      Form: cotton on to something (always)
Derivative: cottony
adj
    Etymology: 14c: from French coton, from Arabic qutun.



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