ANAPHALIS MARGARITACEA

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Meaning:

An American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts

Synonyms:

Anaphalis margaritacea; cottonweed; pearly everlasting

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Anaphalis margaritacea" is a kind of...):

everlasting; everlasting flower (any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)

Holonyms ("Anaphalis margaritacea" is a member of...):

Anaphalis; genus Anaphalis (a genus of herbs of north temperate regions having hoary leaves: pearly everlasting)

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