bolls
- plural of boll.
Example Sentences
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As children in the 1960s, Collier and his siblings worked the cotton fields around Black Swamp, lugging burlap sacks up and down long rows and pulling white bolls from between the plants’ needle-like stems.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2020
One particularly intricate 36-inch Della Robbia-style wreath at the Roscow Cole House has Osage oranges, pomegranates, lady apples and cotton bolls.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2017
Her child cried, and it distracted her, slowed the accumulation of cotton bolls in her sack.
From The Guardian • Oct. 28, 2017
An estimated $150 million worth of cotton has been lost as the storms ripped the bolls off plants and left white fiber strewn across fields.
From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2017
But in the Andean past, the long, puffy bolls of South American cotton, some varieties naturally tinted pink, blue, or yellow, were the soft underpinning of Andean culture.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
