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boll

seed pod of a plant, as flax or cotton
Not to be confused with:
bole – tree trunk
bowl – hemispherical vessel; a large wooden ball; a roll of the ball, as in bowling
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boll

 (bōl)
n.
The seed-bearing capsule of certain plants, especially cotton and flax.

[Middle English, from Middle Dutch bolle, round object; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]
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boll

(bəʊl)
n
(Plants) the fruit of such plants as flax and cotton, consisting of a rounded capsule containing the seeds
[C13: from Dutch bolle; related to Old English bolla bowl1]

Böll

(German bœl)
n
(Biography) Heinrich (ˈhaɪnrɪç) (Theodor). 1917–85, German novelist and short-story writer; his novels include Group Portrait with Lady (1971): Nobel prize for literature 1972
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boll

(boʊl)

n.
a rounded seed vessel or pod of a plant, as of flax or cotton.
[1400–50; late Middle English bolle, perhaps < Middle Dutch bolle]

Böll

(bœl)

n.
Heinrich (Theodor), 1917–85, German novelist: Nobel prize 1972.
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Boll

 measure of capacity for grain [six bushels in Scotland]; a measure of weight [140 lb.].
Examples: boll of corn, 1651; of grain; of malt, 1725; of oats, 1590; of salt, 1691; of wheat, 1875.
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Boll

Cottonseed pod.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.boll - the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plantboll - the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
capsule - a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
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Translations

boll

[bəʊl] N (Bot) → cápsula f
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boll

nSamenkapsel f
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References in classic literature ?
Though they might have two or three brass kettles hanging, in their lodges, yet they would frequently use vessels made of willow, for carrying water, and would even boll their meat in them, by means of hot stones.
Each student carried a stalk of sugar-cane with some open bolls of cotton fastened to the end of it.
On maturity, the data were recorded for morphological characters viz., node number of first fruiting branch, node number of first effective boll formation, node height up to first fruiting branch, plant height, monopodial branches per plant, sympodial branches per plant, bolls per plant, seed cotton yield per plant and within-boll yield components like boll weight, seeds per boll, lint mass per boll, lint percentage (%), seed cotton per seed and lint per seed, from randomly selected five plants.
They also agreed that the record in the federal criminal case would become part of the factual record on which the court-appointed referee in the case, James Boll, would draw for his recommendations.
Cotton should not be picked from unripe boll as it can damage quality of the rest of the stock.
The characters studied were; 1st sympodial node number, sympodial branches/plant, bolls/plant, boll weight, lint percentage, fibre length, micronaire value and seed cotton yield/plant.
Alies so hell da vorn (It's all so bright over there) is Monika Geier's seventh outing for the likable and slightly chaotic Detective Superintendent Bettina Boll of the Ludwigshafen police force.
Heinrich Boll, the novelist and future Nobel Prize winner, sent flowers to Klarsfeld, writing in the newspaper Die Zeit that Kiesinger was one of "those bourgeois Nazis who did not get their hands dirty, and who have continued, since 1945, to stroll shamelessly through German public life." Boll added that when he and his fellow writer Gunter Grass condemned Kiesinger they merely "play[ed] the ludicrous role of 'the nation's conscience,' to be proudly displayed in other countries." Boll hoped that Klarsfeld, by contrast, might actually change the nation's mind about whether an ex-Nazi should be the head of their government.
Boll is an actor with a wide array of credits across theater, television and film over the past two decades.
Early harvest and stalk destruction are among the most effective cultural and mechanical practices for managing overwintering boll worms if done on an area wide basis.
Cotton boll serving dish by Sharon Blackledge, $38; Smitten Gift Boutique, 207 W.