COTTON GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cotton grass mean? 

• COTTON GRASS (noun)
  The noun COTTON GRASS has 1 sense:

1. any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes

  Familiarity information: COTTON GRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COTTON GRASS (noun)

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Meaning:

Any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cotton grass; cotton rush

Hypernyms ("cotton grass" is a kind of...):

sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotton grass"):

common cotton grass; Eriophorum angustifolium (having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes)

Holonyms ("cotton grass" is a member of...):

Eriophorum; genus Eriophorum (cotton grass)