cud·weed

(kŭd′wēd′)

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)

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]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

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 filago, cotton rose 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 Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage mugwort - any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia

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Fleabane Euchiton involucratus Cudweed Euchiton japonicus Creeping Cudweed Euchiton sphaericus Common Cudweed *Gamochaeta calviceps Cudweed *Gamochaeta purpurea Purple Cudweed Hyalosperma demissum Moss Sunray *Hypochoeris radicata Cat's Ear Lagenophora gracilis Slender Lagenophora Lagenophora stipitata Common Lagenophora *Leontodon saxatilis subsp.

A census and significance of the vascular flora of Mount Cannibal, Victoria

Other minor weeds recorded in the field were wandering cudweed (Gnaphalium pensylvanicum (Willd.) Cabrera; Asteraceae), sow thistle (Sochus spp.; Asterales: Asteraceae), field pennycress (Thiaspi arvense L.; Brassicales: Brassicaceae) and Mexican tea (Chenopodium ambrosioides L.; Caryophyllales: Chenopodiaceae).

Reusing plastic mulch for a second strawberry crop: effects on arthropod pests, weeds, diseases and strawberry yields

(sedge), Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge), Commelina benghalensis (day flower), Bidens pilosa (hairy beggarticks), Galinsoga parviflora (gallant soldier), Gnaphalium spicatum (spiked cudweed), Chamaesyce hirta (asthma plant), Brachiaria plantaginea (alexandergrass), Elusine indica (indian goosegrass), Mollugo verticillata (green carpetweed) Cenchrus echinatus (southern sandbur), Portulaca oleracea (little hogweed).

Growth, production and quality of pineapple in response to herbicide use/Crescimento, producao e qualidade do abacaxizeiro em resposta ao uso de herbicidas

Heavy poaching from horse hooves creates extensive bare, unvegetated ground containing uncommon plants such as marsh cudweed Gnaphalium uliginosum; however, this habitat is not favorable for O.

Precipitation and habitat degradation influence the occurrence of the common green grasshopper Omocestus viridulus in southeastern England

The two older children, Solstice and Cudweed are horrified when their unpredictable inventor father appoints a new schoolmaster for them, a man so sinister and hairy that they are convinced he is a werewolf.

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There's Lord Valevine, who thinks he's an inventor, his wife Minty who is obsessed with baking, 10 year-old Cudweed and his hateful pet monkey Fellah and Edgar's favourite, Solstice - the bright, black-haired, poetry reading elder daughter.

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There is Lord Valevine, who thinks he's an inventor, his wife Minty who is obsessed with baking, 10-year-old Cudweed and his hateful pet monkey Fellah and Edgar's favourite, Solstice the bright, black-haired, poetry reading elder daughter.

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