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Wikipedia: Cotton is a soft, fluffy, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa. The fiber most often is spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile, which is the most widely used natural-fiber cloth in clothing today. The English name derives from the Arabic (al) qutn قُطْن, which began to be used circa 1400.
![[Offloading freshly harvested cotton into a module builder in Texas]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cotton_harvest_s.jpg "Offloading freshly harvested cotton into a module builder in Texas")
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![[Cotton being picked by hand in India, 2005.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cotton_picking_in_India_s.jpg "Cotton being picked by hand in India, 2005.")
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![[Cotton modules in Australia (2007)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cotton_modules_s.jpg "Cotton modules in Australia (2007)")
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![[Cotton exhibit at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana has been a major cotton producer]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cotton_exhibit_at_Louisiana_State_Exhibit_Museum_in_Shreveport_IMG_3353_s.jpg "Cotton exhibit at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana has been a major cotton producer")
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![[Cotton fibers viewed under a Scanning Electron Microscope]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/C21a_s.jpg "Cotton fibers viewed under a Scanning Electron Microscope")
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![[Picking cotton in Georgia, United States, in 1943]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cotton1943_cropped_s.jpg "Picking cotton in Georgia, United States, in 1943")
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![[Picking cotton in Oklahoma, USA, in the 1890s]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cotton_field_s.jpg "Picking cotton in Oklahoma, USA, in the 1890s")
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![[The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Vegetable_lamb_28Lee_2C_1887_29_s.jpg "The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary")
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