The whiteflies then damage cotton; they downgrade the cotton lint by sticking to it.

The current cotton picker is a self-propelled machine that removes cotton lint and seed (seed-cotton) from the plant at up to six rows at a time.

Fibres grow from the seed coat to form a boll of cotton lint.

Yields of cotton lint had fallen to 660 pounds an acre, with 5.25 million acres under cotton cultivation.

Cotton production (cotton lint) rose from 13,000 tons in 1949 to 180,000 tons in 1965.

They chew through the cotton lint to feed on the seeds.

He looked at her proudly, as he wiped his hands on cotton lint.

Some cotton fiber was used domestically, but about 80 percent of the country's crop was processed into cotton lint at more than ten textile-processing factories.

The value of cotton lint has been decreasing for sixty years, and the value of cotton has decreased by 50% in 1997-2007.

He held the baby's feet up in one hand, a wad of soiled cotton lint in the other.