cudweed

cud·weed

C0794400 (kŭd′wēd′)n. Any of various plants in the composite family, especially of the genus Gnaphalium, having woolly leaves and small whitish or yellowish flower heads.

cudweed

(ˈkʌdˌwiːd) n1. (Plants) any of various temperate woolly plants of the genus Gnaphalium, having clusters of whitish or yellow button-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)2. (Plants) any of several similar and related plants of the genus Filago, esp F. germanica

cud•weed

(ˈkʌdˌwid)

n. any of the composite plants of the genus Gnaphalium, having woolly leaves and tubular flowers. [1540–50]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cudweed - any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or coloreverlasting, everlasting flower - any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or colorgenus Gnaphalium, Gnaphalium - large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucreschafeweed, Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed - weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike
	2.	cudweed - any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower headsfilago, cotton roseflower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossomsgenus Filago - genus of small woolly herbsFilago germanica, herba impia - (literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose
	3.	cudweed - perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United StatesArtemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sagemugwort - any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia