cudweed

English

California cudweed ()

Etymology

cud +‎ weed, or perhaps an alteration of cottonweed or cutweed (referring to its application to cuts and chafings).

Noun

cudweed (countable and uncountable, plural cudweeds)

1. Any of many of species of flowering plants in family Asteraceae:
   1. , a plant genus with species in North and South America
   2. Gnaphalium, a plant genus with species in Eurasia and the Americas
   3. , a plant genus native to North America
   4. , a plant genus in Eurasia and North America
   5. , a plant genus native to Australasia and the Pacific
   6. , a plant genus occurring in Africa, Australasia and Eurasia.
2. Cudbear (Lecanora tartarea)

Derived terms

terms derived from cudweed

• alpine arctic cudweed ()
• arctic cudweed ()
• Arizona cudweed ()
• bighead pygmycudweed (, syn. )
• California cudweed ()
• common cudweed ( or )
• creeping cudweed (, syn. )
• Dominican cudweed (, syn. )
• dwarf-cudweed ()
• dwarf dwarf-cudweed ()
• erect dwarf-cudweed ()
• Heller's cudweed ()
• Jersey cudweed (, syn. )
• Macoun's cudweed ()
• many stem cudweed ()
• marsh cudweed ()
• Norwegian arctic cudweed ()
• pink cudweed ()
• Pringle's cudweed ()
• pygmy cudweed ()
• rosy cudweed ()
• royal cudweed (, syn. )
• shortleaf dwarf-cudweed ()
• silver pygmycudweed (, syn. )
• slender cudweed ()
• spring pygmycudweed (, syn. )
• stemless dwarf-cudweed ()
• tapered cudweed ()
• tropical creeping cudweed ()
• western marsh cudweed ()
• white cudweed ()
• winged cudweed ()
• woodland arctic cudweed (, syn. )
• woody cudweed ()
• Wright's cudweed ()

Translations

flowering plant of the genus Gnaphalium or Pseudognaphalium

• Bulgarian: бял смин (bjal smin)
• Finnish: jäkkärä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: gnafálio m

References

• cudweed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cudweed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “cudweed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.