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noun(cot-ton)a soft usually white fibrous substance composed of the hairs surrounding the seeds of various erect freely branching tropical plants (genus Gossypium) of the mallow family
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noun(cot-ton)a plant producing cotton; especially : one grown for its cotton
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noun(cot-ton)a crop of cotton
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verb(cot-ton)to take a liking —used with to
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verb(cot-ton)to come to understand —used with to or on to
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noun(cot-ton)a fine long-staple often somewhat brownish cotton grown chiefly in Egypt
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noun(cot-ton)a cotton that produces fiber of exceptional strength and firmness and that was developed in the southwestern U.S. by selection and breeding of Egyptian cottons
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noun(cot-ton)a cotton (Gossypium barbadense) with especially long silky fiber —called also sea island
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noun(cot-ton)the silky or cottony covering of seeds of various silk-cotton trees; especially : kapok
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noun(cot-ton)a widely cultivated American cotton plant (Gossypium hirsutum) having short- to medium-staple fibers
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phrasal verb(cot-ton)to begin to understand something : to catch on —often + to
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phrasal verb(cot-ton)to begin to like (someone or something)