Gnaphalium

2 definitions found

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

  Gnaphalium \Gna*pha"li*um\, n. [Nl., from Gr. ? wool of the
     teasel.] (Bot.)
     A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and
     persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Gnaphalium
       n : large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with
           whitish involucres [syn: {genus Gnaphalium}]