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cotton wools

cotton wools is the plural of cotton wool.

Meaning of cotton wool

Noun

cotton wool (usually uncountable, plural cotton wools)

  1. (US, usually) Raw fibers of cotton before being processed.
  2. (UK, usually) Soft, absorbent cotton for medical or cosmetic use, protective padding, etc.

Questions about cotton wools

What is cotton wools the plural of?
Cotton wools is the plural of cotton wool.

Words near cotton wools in the dictionary

  1. cotton wool
  2. cotton wool ball
  3. cotton wool balls
  4. cotton wool bud
  5. cotton wool buds
  6. cotton wools
  7. cotton worm
  8. cotton worms
  9. cotton-candy
  10. cotton-fish
  11. cotton-fishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cotton wools (page history and authors); cotton wool (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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