Definition of Cotton plant

1. Noun. Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotton Plant

cotton-wooly
cotton ball
cotton boll
cotton bolls
cotton bollworm
cotton cake
cotton candy
cotton cloth
cotton flannel
cotton gin
cotton gins
cotton mill
cotton mouse
cotton on
cotton plant (current term)
cotton rat
cotton reel
cotton rose
cotton rush
cotton stainer
cotton strain
cotton swab
cotton swabs
cotton thistle
cotton to
cotton up
cotton wool
cotton wool bud
cotton wool buds

Literary usage of Cotton plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1896)
"NITROGEN ASSIMILATION IN THE cotton plant. BY CHARLES E. COATES AND WR DODSON. ... As the cotton plant is highly nitrogenous in character and as there ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"UNIVERSITY OP WISCONSIN WA TAYLOR, SF ACHEE ON THE REGULARITY OF BLOOMING IN THE cotton plant IN 1915 the writer carried on some experiments on the water ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"The plant grows In a different manner from the ordinary cotton-plant. It grows to about the height of ten feet, has a straight, vertical stem, ..."

4. American Agriculturist (1846)
"... breadth at the points of the wings, when at rest ; the color an ashen-grey, | « Seabrook's Memoir on the cotton plant; and Edwards' West Indies. ..."

5. The American Agriculturist (1846)
"... which would have been devoured I * Seabrook's Memoir on the cotton plant; an« by them, was, with the enemy, effectually destroyed Edwards' West Indies. ..."

6. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"Townsend Glover, entomologi, employed by the Pater Office, describes the diseases incident to the cotton plant in successive papers, in the volumes of the ..."

7. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1858)
"The London cotton plant; a Journal of Tropical Civilisation. Published for the Proprietors by C. MITCHELL. London: June, 1858. 2. ..."

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