maksud cotton

noun

[mass noun]

• 1a soft white fibrous substance which surrounds the seeds of the cotton plant and is made into textile fibre and thread for sewing:a cargo of cotton and wheat
•  [often as modifier] textile fabric made from cotton fibre:a white cotton blouse
•  thread made from cotton fibre:[as modifier]:a cotton reel
•  North American cotton wool.

• 2 (also cotton plant) the tropical and subtropical plant which is commercially grown to make cotton fabric and thread. Oil and a protein-rich flour are also obtained from the seeds.

  • Genus Gossypium, family Malvaceae: many species and forms

verb

[no object] informal

• 1 (cotton on) begin to understand:he cottoned on to what I was trying to say

• 2 (cotton to) North American have a liking for:his rivals didn’t cotton to all the attention he was getting