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    COTTON-SEED TREE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tuftsplay

    Synonyms:

    Baccharis halimifolia; consumption weed; cotton-seed tree; groundsel bush; groundsel tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("cotton-seed tree" is a kind of...):

    bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

    Holonyms ("cotton-seed tree" is a member of...):

    Baccharis; genus Baccharis (shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control)

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