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cotton grass
noun
- any rushlike plant constituting the genus Eriophorum, of the sedge family, common in swampy places and bearing spikes resembling tufts of cotton.
cotton grass
noun
- any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum, whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts Also calledbog cotton
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cotton grass1
First recorded in 1590–1600; so called from its cottonlike heads
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Example Sentences
White as mountain cotton-grass is each hair that grows through his head.
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For she could see nothing near the boulders then but waving cotton-grass amongst the bog and heather.
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The large tract of swampy ground at the edge of the lake was covered by masses of cotton grass.
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Many attempts have been made to spin the silky threads of the Cotton-grass which grows abundantly on the Scotch lowlands.
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A child presented me with a bunch of cotton-grass, gathered on the moors not far from the Roman-Wall.
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