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Agriculture | | Portuguese term or phrase: algodão-caroço | Document from Mozambique. Just want to make sure I am getting the exact corresponding agro-industrial term in English.
Some examples:
"A CONCESSIONÁRIA obriga-se a atempadamente adquirir, a pronto pagamento e a armazenar todo o algodão-caroço produzido pelos produtores..."
"Considerando que nas províncias de Tete e Manica não existe nenhuma fábrica de descaroçamento de algodão em funcionamento, a CONCESSIONÁRIA obriga-se a tomar as devidas diligências para que o algodão-caroço produzido na sua área de concessão seja igualmente exportado em bruto."
"Caso os niveis de produção de algodão-caroço o justifiquem, a CONCESSIONÁRIA instalará uma fábrica de descaroçamento e prensagem de algodão..."
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| | whole cottonseed | Explanation:
The credit for refining the translation goes to William Steinmetz, but when I looked up "fuzzy seed," I found it given as an alternative to "whole cottonseed," which appears to be the primary term (4,860 hits for "whole cottonseed" vs. 634 for "fuzzy seed").
See the following from http://www.ingredients101.com/cottonwhole.htm:
COTTONSEED, WHOLE
Description
Whole cottonseed is high in protein, fat, fiber and energy. This combination of nutrients in one feedstuff is unusual. Whole cottonseed with the lint still attached is white and fuzzy in appearance. It sometimes is called "fuzzy seed," and has the analysis shown below. Whole cottonseed from which the lint has been removed is called delinted seed, is black and smooth in appearance, and tends to be slightly higher in protein and fat than the fuzzy seed.
Research at the Universities of California and Pennsylvania has shown that feeding whole cottonseed to milking cows can stimulate higher milk fat test and help maintain milk persistency. It should be fed at the rate of 4 to 7 pounds (1.8 to 3.1 kg) per cow per day. Mechanically delinted seed has the same effect as fuzzy seed.
Whole cottonseeds do not need to be crushed or processed in any way before feeding.
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Muriel Vasconcellos
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Local time: 23:13
| Grading comment Many thanks to everyone who contribued. After some further research, this seems to be the best equivalent in English.
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19 mins confidence: | algodão-caroço fuzzy seed
Explanation:
This is a technical term. Cotton seed would be "semente de algodão". The difference is that there is an entire process of "delinting" (removing the "lint" or fuzz from the seed, nowadays usually a chemical process) that is left to the buyer of "fuzzy seed" (also called "algodão em caroço").
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Brazil
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Native speaker of:  English
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16 hrs confidence: | algodão-caroço whole cottonseed
Explanation:
The credit for refining the translation goes to William Steinmetz, but when I looked up "fuzzy seed," I found it given as an alternative to "whole cottonseed," which appears to be the primary term (4,860 hits for "whole cottonseed" vs. 634 for "fuzzy seed").
See the following from http://www.ingredients101.com/cottonwhole.htm:
COTTONSEED, WHOLE
Description
Whole cottonseed is high in protein, fat, fiber and energy. This combination of nutrients in one feedstuff is unusual. Whole cottonseed with the lint still attached is white and fuzzy in appearance. It sometimes is called "fuzzy seed," and has the analysis shown below. Whole cottonseed from which the lint has been removed is called delinted seed, is black and smooth in appearance, and tends to be slightly higher in protein and fat than the fuzzy seed.
Research at the Universities of California and Pennsylvania has shown that feeding whole cottonseed to milking cows can stimulate higher milk fat test and help maintain milk persistency. It should be fed at the rate of 4 to 7 pounds (1.8 to 3.1 kg) per cow per day. Mechanically delinted seed has the same effect as fuzzy seed.
Whole cottonseeds do not need to be crushed or processed in any way before feeding.
| Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 23:13
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
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| | Grading comment | Many thanks to everyone who contribued. After some further research, this seems to be the best equivalent in English. |
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