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    COTTON RUSH

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    cotton grass; cotton rush

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("cotton rush" 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 rush"):

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

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

    Eriophorum; genus Eriophorum (cotton grass)

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