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cudweed

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cud·weed  (kdwd)
n.
1. Any of various woolly plants of the genus Gnaphalium in the composite family, having small whitish or yellowish flower heads.
2. Any of several similar and related plants in the genus Filago.
cudweed [ˈkʌdˌwiːd]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various temperate woolly plants of the genus Gnaphalium, having clusters of whitish or yellow button-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several similar and related plants of the genus Filago, esp F. germanica
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Noun1.cudweed - any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or colorcudweed - 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 Statescudweed - 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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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.
books: A flood of imagination from Sedgwick; children FLOOD AND FANG by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
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.
Children's choice by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Nipple wort sounds like something you would visit the doctor about but, along with cudweed and shepherd's purse, it's one of seven herbs eaten at New Year in Japan.
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