Cottonweed

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cottonweed \Cot"ton*weed`\ (-w[=e]d`), n. (Bot.)
     See {Cudweed}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  cottonweed
       n 1: American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs
            and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts [syn: {pearly
            everlasting}, {Anaphalis margaritacea}]
       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