cotton grass
any rushlike plant constituting the genus Eriophorum, of the sedge family, common in swampy places and bearing spikes resembling tufts of cotton.
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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 Quiver, 2/1900 | VariousThe large tract of swampy ground at the edge of the lake was covered by masses of cotton grass.
Across Iceland | William BisikerMany attempts have been made to spin the silky threads of the Cotton-grass which grows abundantly on the Scotch lowlands.
The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott ElliotA child presented me with a bunch of cotton-grass, gathered on the moors not far from the Roman-Wall.
Northumberland Yesterday and To-day | Jean F. Terry
British Dictionary definitions for cotton grass
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 called: bog cotton
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