English to Afrikaans Meaning of boll - Boll

Boll :

Boll

noun

peulplant, Boll, spook, houer, winkel, drom, trommelvlies, papawer saad, papawer pod, follikel, kabeljou, kapsel, eierstok

Boll :: BollBolls :: bolle

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Definitions of boll in English

Noun(1) the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant

Examples of boll in English

(1) According to Shurley and Bednarz, peak maturity of a cotton boll occurs at its opening.(2) ├ö├ç├┐I work on the coolest stuff,├ö├ç├û said Wendel, picking up a cotton boll lying on his desk.(3) A tiny cotton boll harvested from a field ends up in a 500-pound bale that is shipped to textile mills or traded on the world market.(4) Total boll numbers and seed cotton mass per metre were recorded.(5) By maturity, the mutant seeds had only produced a few short fibres and the seeds were visible from the mature cotton bolls .(6) Every one of these materials and creatures bears the mark of anthropogenic selection, from cotton bred for large bolls to flowers selected for their showy display.(7) Additional labor allows the initiation of cotton harvest to begin 2 weeks later, which leads to more open bolls .(8) Cotton bolls burst forth with all the bright colors of the rainbow.(9) Sterile flowers soon fall off the plant without forming the bolls that are the source of cotton textile fibers.(10) Cotton bolls are dry fruits from which we harvest cotton fibers.(11) Fingers or brushes strip plant parts and cotton bolls from the plant, thus picking up excess trash.(12) High temperatures during this stage of cotton development caused excessive abortion of bolls and seed embryos.(13) But we're having real problems getting the bolls to open, and the leaf off to a lesser extent.(14) The last thing for listeners to decide on was how to get the cotton bolls all opening at the same time, and the leaves dropping off the bush, so as to be able to pick the crop efficiently.(15) The pink bollworm is a major cotton pest which invades the growing cotton bolls and destroys both the seeds and the cotton fibers.(16) Today, it's not the boll weevil but the pink bollworm that threatens southwestern Pima, nesting inside the bolls , where it is hard to get.

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Synonyms

1. pod ::

pod

2. legume ::

peulplant

3. boll ::

Boll

4. haunt ::

spook

5. reservoir ::

reservoir

6. container ::

houer

7. receptacle ::

houer

8. store ::

winkel

9. drum ::

drom

10. tympan ::

trommelvlies

12. poppy seed ::

papawer saad

13. poppy pod ::

papawer pod

14. follicle ::

follikel

15. cod ::

kabeljou

16. capsule ::

kapsel

17. ovary ::

eierstok

Different Forms

boll, bolls

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