Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Cotton"

  1. wool
  2. seed
  3. mills
  4. wood
  5. mill
  6. cloth
  7. growing
  8. spinners
  9. picking
  10. bales

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. raw
  2. white
  3. american
  4. gun
  5. egyptian
  6. more
  7. indian
  8. fine
  9. much
  10. blue

What Google Knows

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

Related Definition

  1. cotton:

    n Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.

    n Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.

    n Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.

    n (textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.

    n (countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

    adj Made of cotton.

    v (transitive) To provide with cotton.

    v To supply with a cotton wick.

    v To fill with a wad of cotton.

    v (horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.

    v To cover walls with fabric.

    v (tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )

    v To make or become cotton-like

    v To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.

    v To develop a porous, cottony texture.

    v To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.

    v To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.

    v To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.

    v To rub or burnish with cotton.

    v To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

    n The name of several settlements around the world

    n A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0645).

    n A habitational surname from Old English.

    n A surname from Hebrew.


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