Cottonweed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various plants having cottony down, as some species of the genus Froelichia.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several unrelated plants that have downy heads, but especially such plants of the genus Froelichia.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See cudweed.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A plant of either of the genera Gnaphalium and Filago: so named from the soft white pubescence that covers it.
  • n. Same as sea-cudweed.
  • n. The common milkweed, Asclepias Syriaca: the name, like that of silkweed, refers to the copious white fiber attached to its seeds. Also called wild cotton.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
  • n. any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    everlasting flower    everlasting    herbaceous plant    Herb   
    Variant
    cudweed   
     
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