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COTTON RUSH
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes
Synonyms:
cotton grass; cotton rush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cotton rush" is a kind of...):
sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotton rush"):
common cotton grass; Eriophorum angustifolium (having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes)
Holonyms ("cotton rush" is a member of...):
Eriophorum; genus Eriophorum (cotton grass)