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adjectiveresembling cotton; as soft as cotton
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Definition that contains cottony
- woolly covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
- cottonwood any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed
- eriophorum angustifolium having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
- cudweed perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
- prairie sage perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
- artemisia ludoviciana perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
- musk thistle Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar
- lanate covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
- carduus nutans Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar
- nodding thistle Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar