cudweed
cudweed noun: gamochaeta, with species in North and South America.
Noun
cudweed (countable and uncountable, plural cudweeds)
- Gamochaeta, with species in North and South America
- Gnaphalium, with species in Eurasia and the Americas
- Pseudognaphalium, native to North America
- Filago, of Eurasia and North America
- Euchiton, native to Australasia and the Pacific
- Helichrysum, occurring in Africa, Australasia and Eurasia.
- Antennaria dioica
- Synonyms:
- mountain everlasting, stoloniferous pussytoes, catsfoot
- Cudbear, a fungus of species (Ochrolechia tartarea, syn. Lecanora tartarea)
Synonyms of cudweed
- mountain everlasting
- stoloniferous pussytoes
- catsfoot
Forms of cudweed
| plural | cudweeds |
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Origin of cudweed
From cud + weed, or perhaps an alteration of cottonweed or cut weed (referring to its application to cuts and chafings).
Words formed from cudweed
- alpine arctic cudweed
- arctic cudweed
- Arizona cudweed
- bighead pygmycudweed
- California cudweed
- common cudweed
- creeping cudweed
- Dominican cudweed
- dwarf-cudweed
- dwarf dwarf-cudweed
- erect dwarf-cudweed
- Heller's cudweed
- Jersey cudweed
- Macoun's cudweed
- many stem cudweed
- marsh cudweed
- Norwegian arctic cudweed
- pink cudweed
- Pringle's cudweed
- pygmy cudweed
- rosy cudweed
- royal cudweed
- shortleaf dwarf-cudweed
- silver pygmycudweed
- slender cudweed
- spring pygmycudweed
- stemless dwarf-cudweed
- tapered cudweed
- tropical creeping cudweed
- western marsh cudweed
- white cudweed
- winged cudweed
- wood cudweed
- woodland arctic cudweed
- woody cudweed
- Wright's cudweed
Questions about cudweed
- What does cudweed mean?
- Cudweed means gamochaeta, with species in North and South America.
- What part of speech is cudweed?
- Cudweed is a noun.
- What is the plural of cudweed?
- The plural of cudweed is cudweeds.
Words near cudweed in the dictionary
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