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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun cudweed has 3 senses

1.  cudweed(n = noun.plant) - any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color;
is a kind of
everlasting, everlasting flower
is a member of genus gnaphalium, gnaphalium
has particulars: chafeweed, gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed

2.  cudweed(n = noun.plant) cotton rose, filago - any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads;
is a kind of flower
is a member of genus filago
has particulars: filago germanica, herba impia

3.  cudweed(n = noun.plant) artemisia gnaphalodes, artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage - perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States;
is a kind of mugwort


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

cudweed, n. [Apparently fr. cud + weed, but perh. a corruption of cottonweed; or of cut weed, so called from its use as an application to cuts and chafings.].

   A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

cudweed, n. any wild composite plant of the genus Gnaphalium, with scales and round flower-heads, formerly given to cattle that had lost their cud.


[RELATED WORDS]

wood cudweed