COTTON GRASS


Meaning of COTTON GRASS in English

any rushlike plant constituting the genus Eriophorum, of the sedge family, common in swampy places and bearing spikes resembling tufts of cotton.

[ 1590-1600; so called from its cottonlike heads ]

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