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Arctic cotton 
a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum sp., found in the Far North.
See also: Eskimo cotton
- 1936 Arctic cotton plant, the bloom of which, together with the soft sphagnum mosses, is used for wicks of Eskimo lamps.
- 1951 The dwarfish Arctic cotton made dots of white against blotches of moss. . . .
- 1955 [Caption] Arctic Cotton Grass annually produces these silky white spheres that rise upward on slender reedlike stems from shallow fresh-water pools. . . .
- 1936 Arctic cotton plant, the bloom of which, together with the soft sphagnum mosses, is used for wicks of Eskimo lamps.