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cotton rose

noun

1. Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night; widely cultivated; naturalized in southeastern United States

• Syn: ↑Confederate rose, ↑Confederate rose mallow, ↑Hibiscus mutabilis

• Hypernyms: ↑hibiscus

2. any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads

• Syn: ↑cudweed, ↑filago

• Hypernyms: ↑flower

• Hyponyms: ↑herba impia, ↑Filago germanica

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Filago

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noun

1. : confederate rose

2. : filago 2; especially : an annual herb (Filago germanica) with capitate clusters of woolly heads — called also herba impia

Useful english dictionary. 2012.