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Cottonweed

Definition: Cottonweed

Cottonweed

Noun

1. American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts.

2. Any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Cottonweed

Synonym: pearly everlasting (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cottonweed

English words defined with "cottonweed": Froelichiagenus Froelichia. (references)

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Modern Translation: Cottonweed

Language Translations for "cottonweed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

gyopár (cudweed). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

母子草 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はは"ぐさ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ottonweedcay

   

Portuguese

  

erva daninha do algodão. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сухоцвіт (everlasting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Cottonweed

Derivations

Words beginning with "cottonweed": cottonweeds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cottonweed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-o-o-t-t-w"

-2 letters: cottoned.

-3 letters: ecotone.

-4 letters: cenote, cooeed, cotton, decent, denote, detect, detent, docent, encode, netted, tented, tooted, townee, wetted, wonted, wooden, wotted.

-5 letters: cento, coden, codon, condo, coned, conte, conto, cooed, cooee, coted, cowed, donee, endow, noted, octet, odeon, owned, tenet, tewed, tondo, toned, toted, towed, tweed, tween, tweet, wooed.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-o-o-t-t-w"
 

+1 letter: cottonweeds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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