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 ]
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 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012