एक कपास या फ्लेक्स प्लांट के गोल बीज-असर कैप्सूल

Noun:

सन या रूई का गोल बीज, बोंडी, डोंडा, गुलर, पटुवा,

boll's Usage Examples:

Special interest attaches to experiments made in the United States to endeavour to raise races of cotton resistant to the boll weevil.

" Boll rot," or "Anthracnose," is a disease which may at times be sufficiently serious to destroy from ro to 50% of the crop. The fungus which causes it (Colletotrichum gossypii) is closely related to one of the fungi attacking sugar-cane in various parts of the world.

The Egyptian boll worm (Earias insulana) is the most important insect pest in Egypt and occurs also in other parts of Africa.

Indian boll worms include the same species, and the closely related Earias fabia, which also occurs in Egypt.

Of this total no less than "40,000,000 (8,000,000) is credited to a small beetle, the cotton boll weevil, and to two caterpillars.

The fruit or boll is round, containing five cells, each of which is again divided into two, thus forming ten divisions, each of which contains a single seed.

Bouche-Leclercq, L'Astrologie grecque (Paris, 1899), with a full bibliography; Franz Boll, Sphaera (Leipzig, 1903); Franz Cumont, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (Brussels, 1898; 7 parts published up to 1909); Franz Boll, "Die Erforschung der antiken Astrologie" (in Neue Jahrbiicher fur das klassische Altertum, Band xxi.

The Indians in part of Guatemala raise cotton, although the boll weevil is abundant.

The damage may be only slight, or the entire boll may ripen prematurely and become dry and dead.

See Boll, Chronik der Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg (1875).

boll's Meaning':

the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant