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cottongrasses

cottongrasses is the plural 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 cottongrasses

What is cottongrasses the plural of?
Cottongrasses is the plural of cottongrass.

Words near cottongrasses in the dictionary

  1. cottonees
  2. Cottones
  3. cottonfield
  4. cottonfields
  5. cottongrass
  6. cottongrasses
  7. cottongum
  8. Cottonian
  9. cottoning
  10. cottoning on
  11. cottoning on to

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