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What is a cotton boll used 4?
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Is it called a cotton boll or ball?
It is known as a cotton ball with an "a" in ball. However, while still on the plant, is called a cotton boll, as in "boll weevil," an important pest of cotton before the advent of insecticides. After the plant blooms and gets pollinated ("squaring"), the flower closes up and produces its seeds surrounded by tough fibers to protect the seeds. It is these fibers that humans harvest and transform into cotton fabric.
Sources of natural fibers are?
Natural fibers come from plant, animal and mineral sources. For example cotton fiber comes from the cotton plant / boll. Linen from the flax plant.
What are the fibres of the cotton boll used for?
It is used for nothing. They get rid of it
What is a sentence using the term by hand?
The postman delivered the mail by hand. Cotton fibers originally had to be removed from the boll by hand.
How does boll weevil destroy the cotton plant?
The boll weevil has this big snout and it uses it to bite the top of the cotton plant. Then it licks out the cotton until it has no more cotton inside the ball. The boll weevil larvae and pupal do the same thing but they have to get help from the adult boll weevil to eat the top og the cotton plant.
How is a boll weevil destroy cotton?
They eat the buds off the cotton plants. The boll weevil does not destroy the cotton plant directly, it destroys the boll wherein grows the cotton and its seeds.
What are seeds of the cotton boll used for?
to make condensed oil and to grow more cotton for the next harvest.
What is the most used fibers?
cotton
What is the seed pod of cotton called?
The seed of cotton is called 'cotton seed'.The pod that contains the cotton seed and the cotton fiber is called a 'boll'.
What are cotton fibers used for?
to make cotton fibre plants
What does boll mean?
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
What was hard to remove from the cotton boll?
The cotton! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
