cotton wool

See also: cottonwool and cotton-wool

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɒtən wʊl/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

cotton wool (usually uncountable, plural cotton wools)

(US) Raw fibers of cotton before being processed.
Hypernym: wool

Coordinate term: wool
(UK) Soft, absorbent cotton for medical or cosmetic use, protective padding, etc.
Hypernym: wool

Coordinate term: cotton swab

Derived terms

Translations

raw fibers of cotton

Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamıq)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 原棉 (zh)
Dutch: katoenvezels n pl
Esperanto: vato
Finnish: raakapuuvilla
German: Baumwolle (de) f
Greek: βαμβάκι (el) n (vamváki)
Hebrew: צֶמֶר גֶּפֶן (he) m (tzémer géfen)
Italian: cotone (it) m, bambagia (it)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: vate f
Ottoman Turkish: پاموق (pamuk), كرسف (kırsef)
Polish: wata (pl) f
Russian: хло́пок-сыре́ц m (xlópok-syréc)
Salar: mamuq
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вата f

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

absorbent cotton

Armenian: բամբակ (hy) (bambak)
Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamıq)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: cotó fluix (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 脫脂棉 / 脱脂棉 (zh) (tuōzhīmián), 藥棉 / 药棉 (zh) (yàomián), 棉花球, 化妝棉 / 化妆棉
Czech: vata (cs) f
Danish: vat n
Dutch: watten (nl) n pl, katoenwatten n pl
Esperanto: absorba vato
Faroese: vatt n
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)
Hebrew: צמר גפן (he) m (tsémer géfen)
Italian: ovatta (it) f, cotone idrofilo m, bambagia (it)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Maori: wūru kātene
Mari:
Eastern Mari: вате (vate)
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
Ukrainian: вата (uk) f (vata)
Venetan: bombaxo, bonbàs

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