1. any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.
2. the fiber of any of these plants, used in making textiles and other products.
3. thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.
4. the crop of these plants.
5. any of various soft downy substances produced by other plants, as on the seeds of a cottonwood.
6. informal to take a liking; attempt to be friendly: a dog that didn't cotton to strangers; an administration that will cotton up to the most repressive of regimes.
7. informal to come to understand. often used with to or onto: "the german bosses . . . never cottoned to such changes” ( N.R. Kleinfield).

1. A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
2. A type of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
3. the textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant.
4. an item of clothing made from cotton.
5. made of cotton.
6. to get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
2. the cotton plant. see Cotten plant, below.
3. cloth made of cotton.
4. to rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
5. to go on prosperously; to succeed.
6. to unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
7. to take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.

1. the white fibrous substance clothing the seeds of the cotton-plant (Gossypium). see cut under cotton-plant.
2. cloth made of cotton.
3. thread made of cotton: as, a spool of cotton contains 200 yards.
4. the wick of a candle.
5. the cotton-plant; cotton-plants collectively.
6. made of cotton; consisting of cotton: as, cotton cloth.
7. to rise with a nap, like cotton.
8. to envelop in cotton; hence, to coddle; make much of.
9. to agree; suit; fit or go well together.
10. to become closely or intimately associated (with); acquire a strong liking (for); take (to): absolutely or with to, formerly with.
11. same as kafir *cotton.
12. see cotton-weed, 3.
13. same as natal *cotton .

1. fabric woven from cotton fibers
2. take a liking to
3. soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
4. erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
5. thread made of cotton fibers