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cotton grass

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

For she could see nothing near the boulders then but waving cotton-grass amongst the bog and heather.

The large tract of swampy ground at the edge of the lake was covered by masses of cotton grass.

Many attempts have been made to spin the silky threads of the Cotton-grass which grows abundantly on the Scotch lowlands.

A child presented me with a bunch of cotton-grass, gathered on the moors not far from the Roman-Wall.

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