COTTON-SEED TREE

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Meaning:

A shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts

Synonyms:

Baccharis halimifolia; consumption weed; cotton-seed tree; groundsel bush; groundsel tree

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cotton-seed tree" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("cotton-seed tree" is a member of...):

Baccharis; genus Baccharis (shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control)

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