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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The seed-bearing capsule of certain plants, especially cotton and flax.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form into or produce bolls or rounded seed-vessels.
- Same as
boln . - To increase.
- noun A round vessel for containing liquids; a bowl. See
bowl , of which boll is the earlier spelling. - noun A vesicle or bubble.
- noun A rounded pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton. See cut under
cotton-plant . - noun A round knob.
- noun An old Scotch dry measure, also used in Durham, Northumberland, Westmoreland, and the Isle of Man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
- noun The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The rounded seed-bearing
capsule of acotton orflax plant. - verb To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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This problem has been going on since Monty was a lad its called boll**cks.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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This problem has been going on since Monty was a lad its called boll**cks.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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This problem has been going on since Monty was a lad its called boll**cks.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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This problem has been going on since Monty was a lad its called boll**cks.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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This problem has been going on since Monty was a lad its called boll**cks.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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This problem has been going on since Monty was a lad its called boll**cks.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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A tiny little insect called the boll weevil had migrated from South America and was quickly destroying their crops.
It’s Your Time Joel Osteen 2010
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A tiny little insect called the boll weevil had migrated from South America and was quickly destroying their crops.
It’s Your Time Joel Osteen 2010
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A tiny little insect called the boll weevil had migrated from South America and was quickly destroying their crops.
It’s Your Time JOEL OSTEEN 2009
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"One of the finds is that when under attack from plant-feeding insects, such as boll weevils and bollworms, plants have an ability to recognize they are in danger and to emit SOS-type signals to recruit the good guys," Lewis said.
Related Words
synonyms (46)
Words with the same meaning
- ball
- balloon
- bladder
- blob
- bolus
- bubble
- bulb
- bulbil
- bulblet
- burr
- capsule
- cod
- ellipsoid
- follicle
- geoid
- globe
- globelet
- globoid
- globule
- glomerulus
- gob
- gobbet
- hull
- husk
- knob
- knot
- legume
- legumen
- oblate spheroid
- orb
- orbit
- orblet
- pease cod
- pellet
- pericarp
- pod
- prolate spheroid
- rondure
- seed pod
- seed vessel
- seedbox
- seedcase
- silique
- sphere
- spheroid
- spherule
hypernyms (1)
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same context (18)
Words that are found in similar contexts
variants (1)
Variants
forms (2)
Forms
cross-references (2)
Cross-references
rhymes (54)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Cole
- Dole
- Kohl
- Nicole
- Ole
- Pole
- Seoul
- Sol
- atoll
- bole
- bowl
- cajole
- coal
- cole
- console
- control
- decontrol
- dhole
- dole
- droll
- enroll
- extol
- foal
- goal
- hole
- knoll
- kohl
- mole
- nole
- noll
- ole
- parole
- patrol
- pistole
- pole
- poll
- rock-and-roll
- role
- roll
- scroll
- self-control
- skoal
- sol
- sole
- soul
- sowle
- stole
- stroll
- thole
- tole
- toll
- troll
- viole
- whole
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