Usually means: Soft, absorbent fibers from plants.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. cotton wool: Merriam-Webster
  2. cotton wool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cotton wool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cotton wool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cotton wool: Vocabulary.com
  6. cotton-wool, cotton wool: Wordnik
  7. cotton wool: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cotton-wool, cotton wool: Wiktionary
  9. cotton wool: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cotton wool: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cotton wool, cotton-wool, cotton wool: Dictionary.com
  12. Cotton Wool (song), Cotton Wool, Cotton wool: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. cotton wool: Rhymezone
  14. Cotton Wool: Britih-American Dictionary
  15. cotton wool: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cotton wool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. cotton wool: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. cotton wool: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cotton wool: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cotton wool: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cotton Wool: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See cotton_wools as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cotton wool)

noun:  (US) Raw fibers of cotton before being processed.
noun:  (UK) Soft, absorbent cotton for medical or cosmetic use, protective padding, etc.

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