boll

About 0.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
2. noun A protuberance or excrescence growing on the trunks of some trees, a burl.
3. noun An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
4. verb To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

Similar words

weevil weevils cotton boll cotton cottonseed lint flaxwort oilseed linseed bean

Often followed by

weevil weevils of and worm is in rot foundation

Word family

Boll Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll bolls