Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cudweed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cudweed \Cud"weed`\ (k?d"w?d`), n. [Apparently fr. cud + weed,
but perh. a corruption of cottonweed; or of cut weed, so
called from its use as an application to cuts and chafings.]
(Bot.)
A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and
leaves, primarily a species of {Gnaphalium}, but the name is
now given to many plants of different genera, as {Filago},
{Antennaria}, etc.; cottonweed.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cudweed
n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having
flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
2: any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of
small woolly flower heads [syn: {cotton rose}, {filago}]
3: perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
[syn: {western mugwort}, {white sage}, {prairie sage}, {Artemisia
ludoviciana}, {Artemisia gnaphalodes}]
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