cottonweed
1. an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts • Syn: pearly everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea • Hypernyms: everlasting, everlasting flower • Member Holonyms: Anaphalis, genus Anaphalis 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 • Hypernyms: herb, herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: Froelichia, genus Froelichia
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