Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants in the composite family, especially of the genus Gnaphalium, having woolly leaves and small whitish or yellowish flower heads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of the common species of Gnaphalium. Also called
chafeweed . - noun Same as
cudbear , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
flowering plants of thegenus Gnaphalium or Pseudognaphalium, related to thedaisy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
- noun any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads
- noun perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yomogi/ Kusa Dango: Mugwort flavored dumplings kusa dango were originally flavored with cudweed
Dango Digest: A Thorough Look at Japanese Dumplings, Part One | The Anime Blog 2008
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Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries,
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Adults also gathered medicinal herbs: cinquefoil ground to a powder for bodily aches, cudweed for diarrhea, oak root as an eyewash, crushed sage for colds, the osha root for coughs, and the like.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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Adults also gathered medicinal herbs: cinquefoil ground to a powder for bodily aches, cudweed for diarrhea, oak root as an eyewash, crushed sage for colds, the osha root for coughs, and the like.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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Here we find a good deal of open ground, with thickets of shrubby Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries,
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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