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How to use cottony in a sentence

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When you tear one of the pods open, you can see that the inside is lined with a cottony padding, which I thought very pretty and delicate.
Researchers raised vedalia beetles to use in orchards that had outbreaks of cottony cushion scale.
Because their undercoat is not so cottony or profuse as that of some other longhaired breeds, ragdolls do not require as much grooming.
Additionally, as one might imagine, the cottony head of the plant made an excellent all-purpose swab.
Beneath the brown velvet of the seed capsules, a white kapok of cottony seed-parachutes packs the core.
Two species of sedges that form cottony seed masses are called cotton grass.
The sky was a powder blue and white, cottony clouds rolled by, sometimes passing by the sun and blocking its rays and creating shadows on earth.
The reaction of the public was immediate, and many people rolled in the thick cottony carpet created by these incredible fireworks of feathers.
Stiff and breakable, paler in color than the cap, it is filled with cottony tissue.
An Italian converting company proposing a cottony collection for the mass and mid-range markets.
The face is enveloped in a cottony cocoon, softly scented with rice steam for delicious delight.
His cottony, fluffy coat needs weekly brushing to be kept up, and minimal shedding makes him a good choice for allergy sufferers.
They are wingless, grayish insects up to 5mm long with segmented odies covered with cottony wax.
Baby napppy has classic cottony non-woven film and natural breathable sheet to make baby be well.
These two types of fungus leave a dusty or cottony coating on grapes and leaves.
The medulla is the lowest layer, and may form a cottony white inner core for the branchlike thallus, or it may be hollow.
The soft, cottony coat of the Coton de Tuléar should be brushed every day.
Frosty pod looks more like a cottony covering on the cocoa pods and doesn't produce any known fruiting body.
On potato dextrose agar, the perimeters of the colonies are white to cottony in appearance with green spores giving a pale to dark green colour to the centre of the colony.
The button has a cottony roll of mycelium, the universal veil, that surrounds the developing fruit body.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The white poplar is sometimes called the silver-leaved poplar because its dark, glossy leaves are lined with cottony nap.
One striking feature of this tree is the pale, cottony down on its twigs, which sometimes persists three or four years.
They are silky on the wrong side, and when the wind blows through the foliage it turns a soft greyish white, like a cottony mass.
The eggs of this insect are microscopic, and are enveloped in a cottony substance.
Many are green while some are red or black or covered with a cottony secretion.
Name from filum, a thread, in allusion to the cottony hairs of these plants.
The view plate was full of the cottony whiteness of a cloud heart.
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