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cottonweed
[ kot-n-weed ]
noun
- any of various plants having stems and leaves covered with a soft, hoary pubescence.
cottonweed
/ ˈɒəˌɾː /
noun
- a downy perennial plant, Otanthus maritimus, of European coastal regions, having small yellow flowers surrounded by large hairy bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- any of various similar plants
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cottonweed1
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Going two miles this morning, we came to a little stream called the Little Cottonweed.
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Pearly, or Large-flowered, Everlasting; Immortelle, Silver Leaf; Moonshine; Cottonweed; None-so-pretty Anaphalis margaritacea Flower-heads—Numerous pearly-white scales of the involucre holding tubular florets only; borne in broad, rather flat, compound corymbs at the summit.
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