“Linen sheets come from cotton plants.”
Usage Entry 1273 / 1350 60-second read
Cotton vs. Linen
A fiber from the cotton plant versus a fiber from the flax plant.
The comparisoni
“Linen sheets come from flax plants — cotton sheets come from cotton plants. Different plants entirely.”
The ruleii
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COTTON = cotton plant. LINEN = flax plant.
COTTON is a soft fiber from the cotton plant — widely used, inexpensive, versatile. LINEN is a fiber from flax — cooler and stronger, but wrinkles easily. Both are natural cellulose fibers but from different plants with different properties.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
Cotton = cotton. Linen = flax.