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Cotton (from
Arabic qutn) is a soft,
fluffy staple fiber that
grows in a boll, or
protective case,
around the
seeds of the
cotton plants of the genus...
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cooking oil from the
seeds of
cotton plants of
various species,
mainly Gossypium hirsutum and
Gossypium herbaceum, that are
grown for
cotton fiber,
animal feed...
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Cottonseed is the
seed of the
cotton plant. The
mature seeds are
brown ovoids weighing about a
tenth of a gram. By weight, they are 60% cotyledon, 32%...
- A
Cotton Gin—meaning "
Cotton engine"—is a
machine that
quickly and
easily separates cotton fibers from
their seeds,
enabling much
greater productivity...
- extra-long
staple (ELS)
cotton. The
species is a tropical, frost-sensitive
perennial that
produces yellow flowers and has
black seeds. It
grows as a bush...
- baccharis,
groundsel bush, sea myrtle, and saltbush.
Consumption weed,
cotton-
seed tree,
groundsel tree, menguilié, and
silverling are also used more locally...
- had an
interest in
cotton seed technology and
understood the
value in
hybrid cotton seeds,
which he
wanted to make
available to
cotton cultivators. However...
- the red
cotton stainer. It is a
serious pest of
cotton crops, the
adults and
older nymphs feeding on the
emerging bolls and the
cotton seeds as they mature...
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Chinese space program. Chang'e 4 took
cotton seeds on its mission, and on 15
January 2019,
China announced that
cotton seeds had sprouted, the
first "truly otherworldly...
- and
sunflower seeds, and soy beans. Many of the oil
seeds generate oils that are self-heating. Palm kernels, rapeseed, and
cotton seed have also been...
