cudweed

English Thesaurus

1. perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	mugwort,
definition	:	any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia (noun.plant)

2. any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	flower,
definition	:	a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	filago germanica, herba impia,
definition	:	(literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus filago,
definition	:	genus of small woolly herbs (noun.plant)

3. any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	everlasting, everlasting flower,
definition	:	any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	chafeweed, gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed,
definition	:	weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus gnaphalium, gnaphalium,
definition	:	large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres (noun.plant)