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Gnaphalium

noun

large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres

• Syn: ↑genus Gnaphalium

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms: ↑cudweed

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Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, alteration of Latin gnaphalion cudweed, modification of Greek gnaphallion, from gnaphallon flock of wool, from gnaptein to card, alteration of knaptein; akin to Old English hnæppan to strike, Old Norse hnafa to cut, Lithuanian knabėti to peel, Latin cinis ashes — more at incinerate

: a large genus of hoary or woolly-tomentose widely distributed herbs (family Compositae) having whitish persistent involucres — see balsamweed 1

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gnaphalium /na-fāˈli-əm/

noun

Any plant of the Gnaphalium genus of composites, to which cudweed belongs

ORIGIN: Latinized from Gr gnaphallion cottonweed

Useful english dictionary. 2012.