Defenition of the word cottonweed

• Defenition of the word cottonweed

  • 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
  • American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
  • an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts

Synonyms for the word cottonweed

• • Anaphalis margaritacea
  • pearly everlasting

Meronymys for the word cottonweed

• • Anaphalis
  • Froelichia
  • genus Anaphalis
  • genus Froelichia

Hypernyms for the word cottonweed

• • everlasting
  • everlasting flower
  • herb
  • herbaceous plant

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