Pronunciation: ' pu ̇ -s ē - ˌ t ō z
Variant: or puss · y's-toes \ -s ē z- \
Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
Date: 1892
: any of a genus ( Antennaria ) of woolly or hoary chiefly temperate perennial composite herbs that have small usually whitish discoid flower heads and a pappus formed of club-shaped bristles