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Vocabulary Entry
cotton
|noun • verb
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N
noun
A soft, fluffy fiber that grows in a protective case around the seeds of cotton plants, used to make fabric.
Example Sentences
"She wore a cotton dress on the hot summer day."
"The farmer harvested the cotton from his fields."
"Cotton is a popular material for bed linens."
V
verb
To gather or harvest cotton from the cotton plants.
Example Sentences
"They will cotton the fields before the rains start."
"The workers cottoned the plants early in the morning."
"This machine is used to cotton efficiently."