Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of hoary-tomentose or woolly herbs, belonging to the order Compositæ.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
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- noun Any of the
genus Gnaphalium offlowering plants , thecudweeds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was only on the very edge of the bank, and in the bottoms of the bights, that any eucalypti grew; the plains were covered with nothing but gnaphalium: the soil various, in some places red tenacious clay, in others a dark hazel-coloured loam, so rotten and full of holes that it was with difficulty the horses could travel over them.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003
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It was only on the very edge of the bank, and in the bottoms of the bights, that any eucalypti grew; the plains were covered with nothing but gnaphalium: the soil various, in some places red tenacious clay, in others a dark hazel-coloured loam, so rotten and full of holes that it was with difficulty the horses could travel over them.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales John Oxley 1804
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_monarda_, most delightfully aromatic, even to the dry stalks and seed - vessels; the white _gnaphalium_ or everlasting flower; roses of several kinds, a few late buds of which I found in a valley, near the church.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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