Where does “cottonseed” come from?
Cottonseed comes from English cotton and English seed, where seed derives from English see, Welsh cyd, Proto-Celtic ki-tu-, and Proto-Indo-European sētis-, ultimately from the root sed- meaning to sit or settle.
cottonseed (English): The seed of the cotton plant
Definitions
- The seed of the cotton plant
Ancestry of “cottonseed”, step by step