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CHAFEWEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chafeweed mean?
• CHAFEWEED (noun)
The noun CHAFEWEED has 1 sense:
1. weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike
Familiarity information: CHAFEWEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
chafeweed; Gnaphalium sylvaticum; wood cudweed
Hypernyms ("chafeweed" is a kind of...):
cudweed (any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)
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