cudweed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any member of species of flowering plants in family Asteraceae of several genera:
Gamochaeta, with species in North and South America
Gnaphalium, with species in Eurasia and the Americas
Pseudognaphalium, native to North America
Filago, of Eurasia and North America
Euchiton, native to Australasia and the Pacific
Helichrysum, occurring in Africa, Australasia and Eurasia.
Antennaria dioica
Cudbear, a fungus of species (Ochrolechia tartarea, syn. Lecanora tartarea)

Word forms

cudweed cudweeds

Etymology

From cud + weed, or perhaps an alteration of cottonweed or cut weed (referring to its application to cuts and chafings).

Synonyms

mountain everlasting stoloniferous pussytoes catsfoot

Derived words

alpine arctic cudweed arctic cudweed Arizona cudweed bighead pygmycudweed California cudweed common cudweed creeping cudweed Dominican cudweed dwarf-cudweed dwarf dwarf-cudweed erect dwarf-cudweed Heller's cudweed Jersey cudweed Macoun's cudweed many stem cudweed marsh cudweed Norwegian arctic cudweed pink cudweed Pringle's cudweed pygmy cudweed rosy cudweed royal cudweed shortleaf dwarf-cudweed silver pygmycudweed slender cudweed spring pygmycudweed stemless dwarf-cudweed tapered cudweed tropical creeping cudweed western marsh cudweed white cudweed winged cudweed wood cudweed woodland arctic cudweed woody cudweed Wright's cudweed

Translations

Bulgarian: смин Dutch: droogbloem Finnish: jäkkärä Hungarian: gyopár Polish: szarota Portuguese: gnafálio Welsh: edafeddog

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