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cud·weed
(kŭd′wēd′)n.
Any of various plants in the composite family, especially of the genus Gnaphalium, having woolly leaves and small whitish or yellowish flower heads.
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cudweed
(ˈkʌdˌwiːd)n
1. (Plants) any of various temperate woolly plants of the genus Gnaphalium, having clusters of whitish or yellow button-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
2. (Plants) any of several similar and related plants of the genus Filago, esp F. germanica
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cud•weed
(ˈkʌdˌwid)n.
any of the composite plants of the genus Gnaphalium, having woolly leaves and tubular flowers.
[1540–50]
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Noun | 1. | cudweed - any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color everlasting, everlasting flower - any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color genus Gnaphalium, Gnaphalium - large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres chafeweed, Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed - weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike |
2. | cudweed - any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms genus Filago - genus of small woolly herbs Filago germanica, herba impia - (literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose | |
3. | cudweed - perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States mugwort - any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia |
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