Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cottonweed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cottonweed \Cot"ton*weed`\ (-w[=e]d`), n. (Bot.)
See {Cudweed}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cottonweed
n 1: American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs
and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts [syn: {pearly
everlasting}, {Anaphalis margaritacea}]
2: 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
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