Boll: alternatives and connections

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton.

Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton ca…

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous.

An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animal…

One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.

A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant…

Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.

A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plan…

The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.

Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as…

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton,…