cottonseed
Americannoun
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cottonseeds,
plural
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cottonseed
plural
noun
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Processed foods often contain palm, palm kernel and cottonseed oils.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
"It's called 'vegetable' so that the manufacturers can substitute whatever commodity oil they want — soy, corn, cottonseed, canola — without having to print a new label," Howard explains.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2021
Two giant cottonseed silos downtown were transformed into their first bakery and market; an expansion in progress will also house a church, a ballpark and multiple “lifestyle retail shops.”
From New York Times ● May 4, 2020
They were made of dark-brown cottonseed hulls, oiled down or they’d blow away, requiring raking before putting.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 8, 2019
Until recently I have always thought that it would injure a plant to set it in soil to which cottonseed meal had been lately applied.
From The Cauliflower by A. A. (Arthur Alger) Crozier
The seeds were planted as the cottonseeds were, and the same kind care supplied sun and rain and earth for them.
From The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air by Jane Andrews
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