How to Use cottonseed in a Sentence

cottonseed

noun
  • And so cottonseed could be a solution — if only people could eat it.
    — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Some growers use a cottonseed meal/bloodmeal homemade blend.
    — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Mulch plants with dry, weed-free grass clippings, straw, cottonseed hulls, or wood chips to control weeds and conserve soil moisture.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • Mulch plants with dry, weed-free grass clippings, straw, cottonseed hulls, or wood chips to control weeds and conserve soil moisture.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
  • This term refers to canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soy, rice bran, sunflower, and safflower oils.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Seed oils include canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, rice bran and peanut oils.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • About a decade ago, his team made headlines for removing a toxin from cottonseed and making the seed a valid, high-protein animal feed.
    — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 5 July 2018
  • So, canola oil, soybean oil, corn oil and olive oil (among others like sunflower, safflower, cottonseed and nut/peanut/seed oils) are recommended.
    — Environmental Nutrition, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Organic fertilizers such as manure tea, fish emulsion, bloodmeal and cottonseed meal can be applied.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 28 July 2017
  • In the past, organic gardeners had no choice but to use single material fertilizers such as blood meal, alfalfa meal or cottonseed meal.
    — Maureen Gilmer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Roundup-resistant Palmer amaranth populations quickly spread through the South, then moved north, hidden at times in cottonseed hulls used for animal feed.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Wise chips were made with the usual combination of frying oils (corn, cottonseed, sunflower, soybean, or canola), and its nutrition facts don’t reveal any notable anomalies.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The two took long drives in his 18-wheel truck, hauling cottonseed, listening to 8-track cassettes of Merle Haggard and George Jones.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017
  • Organic and synthetic Organic fertilizers such as blood meal, bone meal, cottonseed meal and fish emulsion are derived from the remains of living organisms.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Examples of organic lawn fertilizers include cottonseed meal, seaweed, bone meal, blood meal, and various animal manures.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Popular plant sources for organic fertilizers include alfalfa, cottonseed meal, and seaweed.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2022
  • These include the company’s soybean and cottonseed businesses as well as its glufosinate weedkiller, which is a direct competitor to Roundup, a central element of Monsanto’s business.
    — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
  • To increase the availability of other types of animal feed, China’s customs authority removed inspection requirements on a variety of agricultural byproducts, including peanut meal, cottonseed meal and rapeseed meal.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • To increase the availability of other types of animal feed, China’s customs authority removed inspection requirements on a variety of agricultural byproducts, including peanut meal, cottonseed meal, and rapeseed meal.
    — Raymond Zhong, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
  • Cotton linters—the short fibers left on cottonseed after ginning—can be processed into nitrocellulose, a highly volatile, nitrogen-rich material known as guncotton that’s used as a primary ingredient in solid rocket propellants for ballistic missiles.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That’s 50 million tons of cottonseed annually, the International Cotton Advisory Committee reports.
    — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018

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