Akademik

filago

noun

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

• Syn: ↑cotton rose, ↑cudweed

• Hypernyms: ↑flower

• Hyponyms: ↑herba impia, ↑Filago germanica

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Filago

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\\fə̇ˈlā(ˌ)gō, -lä(-\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, a plant, probably cudweed, from Latin filum thread + -ago (as in plantago plantain) — more at file, plantain

1. capitalized : a genus of small woolly herbs (family Compositae) with entire leaves and small flower heads in capitate clusters

2. -s : any plant of the genus Filago — compare cotton rose

Useful english dictionary. 2012.