cotton wool

What does cotton wool mean?

cotton wool means "soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state".

What is another word for cotton wool?

Close synonyms include cotton, cotton fiber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cotton wool a common word?

cotton wool 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cotton wool come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.