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cottonseed

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: K AA1 T AH0 N S IY2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Seed of the cotton plant.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any of genus Micropus.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cottonweed, cottontop

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: oilseed, oil-rich seed

History

Etymology

From cotton + seed.

Across languages

Translations

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: حَبّ القُطْن (ḥabb al-quṭn) — seed of the cotton plant
  • Azerbaijani: çiyid — seed of the cotton plant
  • Chagatai: چگیت (çigit) — seed of the cotton plant
  • Chinese Mandarin: 棉籽 (miánzǐ) — seed of the cotton plant
  • Persian: پنبهدانه (panbe-dâne) — seed of the cotton plant
  • Tajik: пунбадона (punbadona) — seed of the cotton plant
  • Tajik: чигит (čigit) — seed of the cotton plant
  • Turkish: çiğit — seed of the cotton plant
  • Ottoman Turkish: چگیت (çiğit) — seed of the cotton plant
  • Turkmen: çigit — seed of the cotton plant
  • Uyghur: چىگىت (chigit) — seed of the cotton plant
  • Uzbek: chigit — seed of the cotton plant