Lavender cotton Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers
    Santolina chamaecyparissus.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress.

Webster 1913