The ovary has yellow spines with dense tufts of long cottony hairs in the areolas.
The flowers are about three inches long and are yellow, and the fruit, which is club-shaped and about three inches long, is covered with white cottony hairs and needlelike spicules.
Ah, yes, an alder branch, with a white, cottony substance on it.
It is not easy to separate them from their cottony covering without crushing them, but now we can see quite well with the magnifying glass--and yes--you see they are little insects.
Whiz-z-z, and then a distant bursting cloud of cottony white smoke high in the blue sky over the hill called Coyotepe.
It puts forth a pod somewhat similar to a milkweed pod, filled with seeds to which a cottony substance is attached.
Nest composed of cinquefoil vines, grasses, wool and cottony substances; situated on an apple tree branch about 10 feet from the ground.
CUD'WEED, the popular name for many species of plants covered with a cottony down.
The stem is hollow, with a soft cottony pith in the young plants.
It is a large, meaty, acrid white species, with a thick, soft, cottony tomentum on the margin of the pileus of the young plant.
The stem is solid, equal, and covered with a cottony layer of mycelium-threads like the pileus, though often paler.
You will see among the cottony fibres a number of little upright stems with black or white or yellow heads, which give the mould a speckled look.
The yeast plant is not a common kind of plant, but belongs to the same class as mushrooms and toad-stools, and the fuzzy, cottony growth that we call mould.
He says: "I have in my ground a plant of Spanish broom about a dozen years old and with a trunk about four inches in diameter which has for several years been seriously infested by cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi).
The cottonyappearance does not show until the second year and then the scale has really done its injury.
The fruit is a conical capsule filled with tiny cottony seeds which ripen in late spring before the leaves are fully expanded.
Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps.
The trees grow to an immense size, and have their seeds enveloped in a cottony substance, which is used for stuffing cushions, but can not be spun.
This substance changes, when mature, to an elastic, yellowish or olivaceous brown, cottonybut dusty mass of filaments and spores.
Above them poises the soft black, slightly indented cone, canopied by a ridiculous tuft of cottony smoke no bigger than a handful at such a distance.
Fungi with the outside covering bowl-shaped Crucibulum, of onecottony layer, the Crucible.
At first it looks like a cottony knot, closely covered; its apex is closed by a membrane, then its covering is thrown off, and the apparent tiny eggs are merely smaller envelopes, called the peridiola.
The greater portion had no woolly covering; nor did I find any of the cottony species of Saussurea, which are so common on the wetter mountains to the southward.
A pink-floweerd Arenaria, two kinds of Corydalis, the cottony Saussurea, and diminutive primroses, were the most conspicuous.
A stout plant, two or three feet high, with large prickly leaves, and more or less covered all over with cottony wool.
A pink-flowered Arenaria, two kinds of Corydalis, the cottony Saussurea, and diminutive primroses, were the most conspicuous.
Capillitium—a soft mass of cottony threads interspersed with minute dust-like spores; the space occupied is called the gleba.
Stem= ringless, sometimes smooth, but generally mealy or floccose, hollow or stuffed with a cottony pith, not bulbous.
Perithecia (the hollow narrow-mouthed cases which contain the spores) gregarious, with a cottony stroma in which they are more or less immersed.
The plants grew in large clusters from rotting, refuse straw in the ruin of a stable; the white, cottony mycelium running upon and through the straw.
The stem is rather long and slender, fragile and adorned with loose, soft fibrils or flocculent, cottony tufts, which give it a somewhat shaggy appearance, but it becomes smoother as the plant grows older.
Often there is a white tomentum or cottony substance at its base.
It delights to grow among fallen leaves, and often there is an abundant white cottony mycelium at the base of the stem.
They should appear as little cottony puffs about ten or eleven in the morning, increase slowly in size, rear their dazzling heads and then start to melt about four in the afternoon.
The storm will be upon you in ten minutes likely after the arc of foreboding blue and white cottony cloud has begun its charge across the sky.
I have seen a young grub, hatched under my eyes, eat as his first mouthfuls this tender cottony layer, which is moist and flavoured with tannin.
The egg, as I have said, is always at the base of the acorn, in the midst of a soft cottony layer which is moistened by the sap which oozes from the stalk.
This aperture includes a little cavity, from which it has the power of darting forth small flocks of a cottony matter that fills it[369].
Some French naturalists have supposed that these fils de la Vierge, as they are called in France, are composed of the cottonymatter in which the eggs of the Coccus of the vine (C.
But they couldn't if there were not some cottony cushion scale insects here too.
Now there are not many cottony cushion scales left in California.
They were put into a tree in a California orange-orchard in which there were many cottonycushion scale insects.
William, in whose mind's eye lingered the vision of an exquisite doglet, with pink-ribboned throat and a cottony head bobbing gently over a filmy sleeve.
Her little white cottony dog, with a heliotrope ribbon round his neck, bobbed his head over her cuddling arm; a heliotrope parasol shielded her infinitesimally from the amorous sun.
Fruit small, dry pods in catkins, having seeds, coated with cottony down, which early in the season escape and float in the wind.
The leaves are deeply toothed and spiny, of a dark green above, white and cottony underneath.
The flower-heads are very large, of a purplish-red colour, and surrounded on the under side with a dense white cottony web.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
