COTTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cotton mean?
• COTTON (noun)
The noun COTTON has 4 senses:
1. soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
2. fabric woven from cotton fibers
3. erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
4. thread made of cotton fibers
Familiarity information: COTTON used as a noun is uncommon.
• COTTON (verb)
The verb COTTON has 1 sense:
1. take a liking to
Familiarity information: COTTON used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COTTON (noun)
Meaning:
Soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
cotton; cotton fiber; cotton wool
Hypernyms ("cotton" is a kind of...):
plant fiber; plant fibre (fiber derived from plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotton"):
absorbent cotton (cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax)
long-staple cotton (cotton with relatively long fibers)
short-staple cotton (cotton with relatively short fibers)
Holonyms ("cotton" is a substance of...):
cotton; cotton cloth (fabric woven from cotton fibers)
cushioning; padding (artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort)
Meaning:
Fabric woven from cotton fibers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
cotton cloth; cotton
Hypernyms ("cotton" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Meronyms (substance of "cotton"):
cotton; cotton fiber; cotton wool (soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotton"):
gauze; gauze bandage ((medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings)
Meaning:
Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cotton plant; cotton
Hypernyms ("cotton" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)
Meronyms (parts of "cotton"):
cottonseed (seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotton"):
Arizona wild cotton; Gossypium thurberi; wild cotton (shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico)
Egyptian cotton (fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton)
Gossypium peruvianum; Peruvian cotton (cotton with long rough hairy fibers)
Gossypium hirsutum; upland cotton (native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton)
Gossypium herbaceum; Levant cotton (Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons)
Gossypium barbadense; sea island cotton; tree cotton (small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers)
Gossypium arboreum; tree cotton (East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms)
Holonyms ("cotton" is a member of...):
genus Gossypium; Gossypium (herbs and shrubs and small trees: cotton)
Meaning:
Thread made of cotton fibers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cotton" is a kind of...):
thread; yarn (a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotton"):
lisle; lisle thread (a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton))
• COTTON (verb)
Meaning:
Take a liking to
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Context example:
cotton to something
Hypernyms (to "cotton" is one way to...):
like (find enjoyable or agreeable)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
