Boll

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The seed-bearing capsule of certain plants, especially cotton and flax.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  • v. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
  • n. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
  • verb-intransitive. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A round vessel for containing liquids; a bowl. See bowl, of which boll is the earlier spelling.
  • n. A vesicle or bubble.
  • n. A rounded pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton. See cut under cotton-plant.
  • n. A round knob.
  • To form into or produce bolls or rounded seed-vessels.
  • n. An old Scotch dry measure, also used in Durham, Northumberland, Westmoreland, and the Isle of Man.
  • Same as boln.
  • To increase.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    capsule   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    bole   
    Form
    bolled    boll weevil   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cole    Dole    Kohl    Nicole    Ole    Pole    Seoul    Sol    atoll    bole   
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