CUDWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cudweed mean? 

• CUDWEED (noun)
  The noun CUDWEED has 3 senses:

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

3. perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States

  Familiarity information: CUDWEED used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUDWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cudweed" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cudweed"):

chafeweed; Gnaphalium sylvaticum; wood cudweed (weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike)

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

genus Gnaphalium; Gnaphalium (large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cotton rose; cudweed; filago

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cudweed"):

Filago germanica; herba impia ((literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose)

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

genus Filago (genus of small woolly herbs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Artemisia gnaphalodes; Artemisia ludoviciana; cudweed; prairie sage; western mugwort; white sage

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

mugwort (any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia)