Soft and light

Usage examples of cottony.

There was noni enata, a diminutive bush bearing crimson pears, ironwood, umbrella ferns which grew in profusion, candlenut trees, and the paper mulberry with yellow blossoms and cottony, round leaves.

One ladybeetle, the Rodolia beetle, achieved fame when it was exported to California in 1888 and successfully saved the Californian citrus industry from devastation by the cottony cushion scale.

I pointed out the fireweed abounding around the disturbed pond edge—Epilobium angustifoliumI taught them, never afraid to introduce a little Latin nomenclature into the mix—and had them find some of the fireweed’s cottony seeds along the bank or skimming across the still surface of the pond.

He saw a good-looking woman in a white cottony top and tan safari shorts hop off the shrimp boat and go upstairs, so Chemo began to work her into the scenario.

Up on the balcony in front of room 212 was parked a solitary laundry cart piled high with enough clean linen to form a small cottony embrasure through which peered the smirking features of second sister Beryl, ever on the case.

Dust and cottony fibers were matted in her long hair, her blouse was smeared with mustard and the indefinite leavings of fast food wrappers, and mottlings (was that charcoal?

The whole plant is cottony, or softly hairy, with curled hairs, especially on the upper surfaces of the leaves, which have much narrower, regularly divided segments, slightly rolled back at theedges.

His voice cut through the cottony layers of her sleep with the sharpness of a cat's claw.