COTTONWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cottonweed mean? 

• COTTONWEED (noun)
  The noun COTTONWEED has 2 senses:

1. an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts

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

  Familiarity information: COTTONWEED used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COTTONWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Anaphalis margaritacea; cottonweed; pearly everlasting

Hypernyms ("cottonweed" is a kind of...):

everlasting; everlasting flower (any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)

Holonyms ("cottonweed" is a member of...):

Anaphalis; genus Anaphalis (a genus of herbs of north temperate regions having hoary leaves: pearly everlasting)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cottonweed" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("cottonweed" is a member of...):

Froelichia; genus Froelichia (genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed)