noun
genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed
• Syn: ↑Froelichia
• Hypernyms: ↑caryophylloid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Amaranthaceae, ↑family Amaranthaceae, ↑amaranth family
• Member Meronyms: ↑cottonweed
Useful english dictionary. 2012.