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Definition of Cottonseeds
1. cottonseed [n] - See also: cottonseed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cottonseeds
Literary usage of Cottonseeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Textiles by Paul Henry Nystrom (1916)
"Finally the cottonseeds, stripped of lint and hulls, are put in a heavy ...
The oil pressed out of the cottonseeds is purified and made into salad oils. ..."
2. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1879)
"... and I fully agree that there ought to be a different system in regard to tare;
that this transporting trash, sand, cottonseeds, here or to Europe, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... a large percentage of its labour and capital into industries which had not
been possible, only longed for, under the slave system. cottonseeds were ..."
4. Export Credit Financing Systems in Oecd Member and Non-Member Countries by OECD Staff, Daiana Cipollone (2001)
"Eligible products include grains, corn, raw sugar, sunflower seeds, rice, tallow,
peanuts, cotton, cottonseeds and the oils or meal derived from such ..."
5. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"... in Asia and Africa, and G. barbadense, in the West Indies. G. religiosum and
hirsutum are varieties of G. herbaceum. cottonseeds contain 5 to 30% of oil ..."
6. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1892)
"The practice is akin to a plan for killing cottonseeds formerly in use at the
South, though far less effective because of the superior resisting power of ..."
7. Terry's Japanese Empire: Including Korea and Formosa, with Chapters on by Thomas Philip Terry (1914)
"cottonseeds arrive from India and are planted. m. Heian Epoch. Rise of the Fujiwara.
1155 (805). Heijo, Mikado, 52d ruler (806-10). ..."
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