Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or resembling cotton; fluffy.
- adjective Covered with fibers resembling cotton; nappy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like cotton; downy; nappy. Also formerly
cottonous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
- adjective Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having some characteristics of
cotton ;soft andfluffy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling cotton; as soft as cotton
Etymologies
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Examples
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That like a broken purpose waste in air; and dappled with hanging mists, white as snow, and 'sun-clouds,' as the natives term the cottony nimbus -- is easily mistaken, in the dim light of dawn, for a line of towering cliffs.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Scientists recently discovered that the insect called the cottony cushion scale isn't hermaphroditic - it's incestuous.
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Scientists recently discovered that the insect called the cottony cushion scale isn't hermaphroditic - it's incestuous.
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I had waked up with a kind of cottony feeling in my throat, and as hot coffee and toast didn't seem to help it, I made an examination with a hand-mirror after breakfast.
The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928
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She fought through cottony layers of sleep and forced her eyes open.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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It was mid-April, and the sun was God with a scalpel, slicing clean the edges of the leaves, the clusters of sick-sweet lilac, and the silkworm webbing that hung from the trees above us in a marvelous cottony cancer.
Bone Hinge 2010
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But here comes the good news: Since the ingested material was presumed to be soft and cottony, we'd try and have her throw it up.
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I eased between the stems, liberating a blizzard of cottony seeds that clung to my clothes.
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The sky is blue except for some cottony white clouds here and there.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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It was mid-April, and the sun was God with a scalpel, slicing clean the edges of the leaves, the clusters of sick-sweet lilac, and the silkworm webbing that hung from the trees above us in a marvelous cottony cancer.
Bone Hinge 2010
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