bog cotton


noun
  1. another name for cotton grass

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How to use bog cotton in a sentence

  • She saw his shock of white, bog-cotton hair, his face of a Jesuit priest and his voice of a Welsh dissenting minister.

    The Boy with Wings | Berta Ruck
  • Sure wasn't he out on the bog the len'th of the day, since early this mornin', he and little Joe, gadrin' her the bog-cotton?

  • The Ceanabhan, pronounced Kanovan, is the bog cotton, and the Monadan is a plant with a red berry found on marshy mountains.

    A Book of Irish Verse | William Butler Yeats