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The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
Answer for the clue "The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant ", 4 letters:
boll
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES boll weevil EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Closet Republicans they are called by some, boll weevils by others. ▪ The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boll \Boll\, n. [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See Bowl a vessel.] The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English bolla "bowl, cup, pot," merged with Middle Dutch bolle "round object," borrowed 13c., both from Proto-Germanic *bul- , from PIE *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole ). Influenced in meaning by Latin bulla "bubble, ball," ultimately ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Boll or Böll is a German , Danish & English surname . Notable people with the surname include: Buzz Boll (1911–1990), Canadian ice hockey player Don Boll (1927–2001), American football player Ernst Boll (1817–1868), German naturalist and historian Fabian ...
Usage examples of boll.
Boll Marchell while Gweanvin considered the point that Marchell was not with the lunching group of bigwigs, which probably meant he would not be present at the upcoming test.
I noted under this weak and wayward sun, had three tall stones planted on it, seeming like the bolls of trees whose branches had long ago been riven away by some storm wind.
He began passing out copies of the Evacuation Plans Emily Boll had given him forty minutes before.
Not much ease, though, for Paul Benden, Emily Boll, Joel Lilienkamp, Desi Arthied, Ezra Keroon, and the other captains with Theo Force and Ben Byrne representing the dolphineers.
Cormack so much as plucked a boll, let alone jumped down, turned around and picked a bale.
They caught him and his master, Fianelli, who had been hiding like a boll weevil right in the middle of his hunters.
On the forty-second day after First Fall, with Thread crossing uninhabited parts of Araby and Cathay and falling harmlessly in the Northern Sea above Delta, missing Dorado´s western prong, Admiral Benden and Governor Boll decreed a day of rest and leisure for all.
On the forty-second day after First Fall, with Thread crossing uninhabited parts of Araby and Cathay and falling harmlessly in the Northern Sea above Delta, missing Dorado's western prong, Admiral Benden and Governor Boll decreed a day of rest and leisure for all.
Sociologists James Bossard and Eleanor Boll, after examining one hundred published autobiographies, found seventy-three in which the writers described procedures which were "unequivocally classifiable as family rituals.
Bridgely took in a deep breath, but a sudden short blow to his midriff by Azury robbed him of wind to speak and he was Ihelpless as the Southern Boll Holder dragged him out of the room.
Bridgely took in a deep breath, but a sudden short blow to his midriff by Azury robbed him of wind to speak and he was Helpless as the Southern Boll Holder dragged him out of the room.
On the one minisled brought along, Emily Boll flew between the agronomy survey and the control tower, correlating data.
On the one minisled brought along, Emily Boll flew between the agronomy survey and the control tower, correlating data.
The boll weevil came along and ate all the cotton, and we had to find something else to do with the land.
Co-Lateral Symbiosis of the Boll Weevil, and so on, through three inches of fine print The old boy seemed to be a heavyweight.