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COTTON GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cotton grass; cotton rush

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Nouns denoting plants

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)

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