absorbent cotton

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   cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax

   Broadercottonabsorbent material

Questions about absorbent cotton

What does absorbent cotton mean?

absorbent cotton means "cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax".

Is absorbent cotton a common word?

absorbent cotton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.