cottonweed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
    Anaphalis margaritacea; pearly everlasting.
  2. noun any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers

WordNet


Cot"ton*weed` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) See Cudweed.

Webster 1913