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COMMON COTTON GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common cotton grass mean?
• COMMON COTTON GRASS (noun)
The noun COMMON COTTON GRASS has 1 sense:
1. having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
Familiarity information: COMMON COTTON GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
common cotton grass; Eriophorum angustifolium
Hypernyms ("common cotton grass" is a kind of...):
cotton grass; cotton rush (any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes)
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