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BOLL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does boll mean?
• BOLL (noun)
The noun BOLL has 1 sense:
1. the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
Familiarity information: BOLL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("boll" is a kind of...):
capsule (a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses)
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