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Alabama; -- a nickname.

A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.

Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [Obs.] Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.

Resembling cotton. [R.] Evelyn.

A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

See Cudweed.

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire. Knight.

A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.

One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.

Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.

Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

Shaped like a cotyle or a cup.

Having cotyles.

Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.