What does «algodón» mean in Spanish?
- Yellow-flowered plant, whose fruit is a capsule of 15 to 20 seeds, wrapped in a white fuzz.
- This erases.
- Spinning or weaving of it.
- Wild shrub, similar to cotton.
♦ Used in: Cuba - (algodón en pólvora) Impregnated in nitric acid and sulfuric acid, explosive.
- (algodón en pólvora) Gosypium herbaceum, malvaceous.