NOUN | plant | cotton grass, cotton rush | any sedge of the genus Eriophorum |
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Meaning | Any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes. | |
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Synonym | cotton rush | |
Member of | Eriophorum, genus Eriophorum | cotton grass |
Narrower | common cotton grass, Eriophorum angustifolium | Having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes |
Broader | sedge | grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers |
Spanish | algodonosa | |
Catalan | cotonera |
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