fiber
Yes. The seeds develop inside the cotton boll. They are bred and sold by several seed companies under the name "cottonseed."
cotton stripper
It was called the cotton gin because it separated seeds from the cotton, so that is how the invention got is name.
Technically a fruit is the fleshy structure surrounding, and protecting , a plants seed or seeds. Cotton bolls are fibrous and not fleshy, but still are develpoed to protect, and distribute the plants seeds, and therefore can be classed a 'fruit'.
It is called a cotton gin and is still used today in a modernized form.
The Cottin Gin.
The Cottin Gin.
During the Civil War, there WAS no machinery to pick cotton- it was picked by hand. The machine that was used to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds was the Cotton Gin (as in engine).
The structure that contains the ovules is typically referred to as the ovary, which is part of the female reproductive organ in flowering plants. In diagrams of flowers, the ovary is often labeled with a specific letter, commonly "C" in many educational materials. The ovules develop into seeds after fertilization.
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
The Cotton Gin The Cotton Gin was so popular that people started getting them. The invention required more people to pick more cotton, so farmers bought even more slaves to pick the cotton.
Cotton is harvested using two methods in North America. The first is the cotton stripper: http://www.deere.com/servlet/com.deere.u90785.productcatalog.view.servlets.ProdCatProduct?tM=FR&pNbr=7460XN The other method is the cotton picker: http://www.deere.com/servlet/com.deere.u90785.productcatalog.view.servlets.ProdCatProduct?tM=FR&pNbr=9996XN