cottongrass

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Etymology

From cotton +‎ grass.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɒt.n̩ ɡɹɑːs/

Noun

cottongrass (usually uncountable, plural cottongrasses)

  1. Various species of plants of genus Eriophorum in the sedge family
    • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20:
      As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]

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