cottons

noun

thread made of cotton fibers

erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

fabric woven from cotton fibers

soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

verb

take a liking to

Roots

qutncotton- · Arabic · cotton

Synonyms & related words for cottons

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of cottons. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to cottons

Explore words related to cottons — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include percaline, cottoning, muslinet, cottonocracy, polycotton, cottoned, jaconet, crepoline. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does cottons come from?

The word cottons breaks down into one root of Arabic origin: the root cotton-, from Arabic qutn (“cotton”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.