cotton wool

See also: cottonwool and cotton-wool

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɒtən wʊl/

Noun

cotton wool (usually uncountable, plural cotton wools)

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

Derived terms

Translations

raw fibers of cotton

Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamïq)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: katoenvezels n pl
Esperanto: vato
Finnish: raakapuuvilla
German: Baumwolle (de) f
Greek: βαμβάκι (el) n (vamváki)

Italian: cotone (it) m, bambagia (it)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: vate f
Russian: хло́пок-сыре́ц m (xlópok-syréc)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вата f

Roman: vata (sh) f
Swedish: råbomull c
Thai: please add this translation if you can

absorbent cotton

Armenian: բամբակ (hy) (bambak)
Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamïq)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: vata (cs) f
Dutch: watten (nl) n pl, katoenwatten n pl
Esperanto: absorba vato
Finnish: pumpuli (fi), vanu (fi)
French: ouate (fr) f, coton hydrophile (fr) m
Galician: algodón (gl) m
German: Verbandwatte f
Greek: βαμβάκι (el) n (vamváki)
Italian: ovatta (it) f, cotone idrofilo m, bambagia (it)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can

Maori: wūru kātene
Norman: ouadinne f
Polish: wata (pl) f
Portuguese: algodão (pt) m
Russian: ва́та (ru) f (váta)
Scottish Gaelic: clòimh-chotain f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вата f

Roman: vata (sh) f
Sicilian: cuttuni spusu m
Slovak: vata f
Swedish: bomull (sv) c, bomullsvadd c, vadd (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Venetian: bombaxo, bonbàs

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Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} vato
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} צמר גפן‎ (he)

Irish: ^{(please verify)} flocas cadáis m, ^{(please verify)} olann chadáis f
Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} вата (uk) f (vata)

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