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cotton grass

American  

noun

  1. any rushlike plant constituting the genus Eriophorum, of the sedge family, common in swampy places and bearing spikes resembling tufts of cotton.


cotton grass British  

noun

  1. Also called: bog cotton.  any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts

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Etymology

Origin of cotton grass

First recorded in 1590–1600; so called from its cottonlike heads

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