| When you tear one of the pods open, you can see that the inside is lined with a cottony padding, which I thought very pretty and delicate. |
| Beneath the brown velvet of the seed capsules, a white kapok of cottony seed-parachutes packs the core. |
| One striking feature of this tree is the pale, cottony down on its twigs, which sometimes persists three or four years. |
| Researchers raised vedalia beetles to use in orchards that had outbreaks of cottony cushion scale. |
| The white poplar is sometimes called the silver-leaved poplar because its dark, glossy leaves are lined with cottony nap. |
| Because their undercoat is not so cottony or profuse as that of some other longhaired breeds, ragdolls do not require as much grooming. |
