Definition of "cottony" [cot•ton•y]

• Of or resembling cotton; fluffy. (adjective)
• Covered with fibers resembling cotton; nappy. (adjective)

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• "That like a broken purpose waste in air; and dappled with hanging mists, white as snow, and 'sun-clouds,' as the natives term the cottony nimbus -- is easily mistaken, in the dim light of dawn, for a line of towering cliffs."
• "Scientists recently discovered that the insect called the cottony cushion scale isn't hermaphroditic - it's incestuous."
• "I had waked up with a kind of cottony feeling in my throat, and as hot coffee and toast didn't seem to help it, I made an examination with a hand-mirror after breakfast."