gnaphalium Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres
    genus Gnaphalium.

WordNet


Gna*pha"li*um noun
Etymology
Nl., from Gr. wool of the teasel.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.

Webster 1913