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cotton grass

cotton grass is the alternative form of cottongrass.

Meaning of cottongrass

Noun

cottongrass (usually uncountable, plural cottongrasses)

  1. (usually) 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[.]1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20
    Synonyms:
    eriophorum, cottonsedge

Questions about cotton grass

What is cotton grass the alternative form of?
Cotton grass is the alternative form of cottongrass.

Words near cotton grass in the dictionary

  1. cotton fishes
  2. cotton fleahopper
  3. cotton fleahoppers
  4. cotton gin
  5. cotton gins
  6. cotton grass
  7. cotton lavender
  8. cotton mice
  9. cotton mill
  10. cotton mills
  11. cotton mouse

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