Cotton
Cotton noun - Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers.
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Wadding and cotton are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wadding" instead a noun "Cotton".
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- Another Polish one: tampon means any bit of cotton wadding, particularly in medical or dental use.
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Both dropped it later for single forms packaged in green, yellow or orange (possibly because new materials meant that they no longer have big pads of cotton wadding in them- like ladies' pads, they all now have a gel core).
Source: Pink Girl, Blue Boy
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