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bog cotton

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noun
another name for cotton grass
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Words nearby bog cotton

Bogart, Humphrey, bog asphodel, Boğazköy, bogbean, bog butter, bog cotton, bog deal, bog down, bogey, bogey-hole, bogeyman
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How to use bog cotton in a sentence

  • She saw his shock of white, bog-cotton hair, his face of a Jesuit priest and his voice of a Welsh dissenting minister.

    The Boy with Wings|Berta Ruck

  • Sure wasn't he out on the bog the len'th of the day, since early this mornin', he and little Joe, gadrin' her the bog-cotton?

    Strangers at Lisconnel|Barlow Jane

  • The Ceanabhan, pronounced Kanovan, is the bog cotton, and the Monadan is a plant with a red berry found on marshy mountains.

    A Book of Irish Verse|William Butler Yeats
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