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cudweed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cudweed has 3 senses
- cudweed(n = noun.plant) Array - any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color; Array is a kind of everlasting, everlasting flower
- cudweed(n = noun.plant) cotton rose, filago - any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads; Array is a kind of flower
- cudweed(n = noun.plant) artemisia gnaphalodes, artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage - perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States; Array is a kind of mugwort
is a member of genus gnaphalium, gnaphalium
has particulars: chafeweed, gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed
is a member of genus filago
has particulars: filago germanica, herba impia
CIDE DICTIONARY
cudweed, n. [Apparently fr. cud + weed, but perh. a corruption of cottonweed; or of cut weed, so called from its use as an application to cuts and chafings.].
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cudweed, n. any wild composite plant of the genus Gnaphalium, with scales and round flower-heads, formerly given to cattle that had lost their cud.
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