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cottongrass

noun
/kɒt.n̩ ɡɹɑːs/

Etymology

From cotton + grass.

  1. inherited from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *grasą✻ — “grass”
  3. inherited from *gras✻
  4. inherited from græs
  5. inherited from gras
  6. compounded as cottongrass — “cotton + grass”

Definitions

  1. Various species of plants of genus Eriophorum in the sedge family

    • As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA