Cotton grass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes
    cotton rush.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a genus of plants (Eriphorum) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton.

Webster 1913