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  • English Word Cottonweed Definition See Cudweed.
  • English Word Cottonwood Definition An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
  • English Word Cottony Definition Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
  • English Word Cottony Definition Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
  • English Word Cottrel Definition A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.
  • English Word Cotyla Definition Alt. of Cotyle
  • English Word Cotyle Definition A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.
  • English Word Cotyledon Definition One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.
  • English Word Cotyledon Definition A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.
  • English Word Cotyledonal Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.
  • English Word Cotyledonary Definition Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.
  • English Word Cotyledonous Definition Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.
  • English Word Cotyliform Definition Shaped like a cotyle or a cup.
  • English Word Cotyligerous Definition Having cotyles.
  • English Word Cotyloid Definition Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.
  • English Word Cotyloid Definition Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.
  • English Word Couage Definition To inspire with courage.
  • English Word Coucal Definition A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.
  • English Word Couch Definition To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
  • English Word Couch Definition To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
  • English Word Couch Definition To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
  • English Word Couch Definition To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
  • English Word Couch Definition To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
  • English Word Couch Definition To arrange; to place; to inlay.
  • English Word Couch Definition To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
  • English Word Couch Definition To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
  • English Word Couch Definition To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
  • English Word Couch Definition To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
  • English Word Couch Definition To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
  • English Word Couch Definition A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.