What is "cottonwool"

Usage examples of "cottonwool".

On the other hand, in the slices surrounded by damp cottonwool, the grains of chlorophyll were green and as perfect as ever.

Taking from it an amethyst necklet, an emerald pendant, and a diamond ring, she wrapped them in cottonwool, and put them in an envelope.

And there was a carved sandal-wood box packed tight with aromatic cottonwool, and between the layers of cottonwool were little brass figures, hump-necked bulls, and peacocks and goblins, delightful to see and to handle.

She was charming, a bird nestling in cottonwool, a rosebud fallen amid snow.

My son Francis placed a thin slice of spinach leaf, moistened with saliva, on a leaf of Drosera, and other slices on damp cottonwool, all exposed to the same temperature.

The mist had now retired upon its source and wound like a cottonwool snake between the river banks.