| NOUN | plant | cotton rush, cotton grass | 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 grass | |
| 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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