cudweed
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
cud + weed, or perhaps an alteration of cottonweed or cut weed (referring to its application to cuts and chafings).
Noun[edit]
cudweed (countable and uncountable, plural cudweeds)
- Any of many of species of flowering plants in family Asteraceae of several genera:
- Gamochaeta, with species in North and South America
- Gnaphalium, with species in Eurasia and the Americas
- Pseudognaphalium, native to North America
- Filago, of Eurasia and North America
- Euchiton, native to Australasia and the Pacific
- Helichrysum, occurring in Africa, Australasia and Eurasia.
- Antennaria dioica
- Synonyms: mountain everlasting, stoloniferous pussytoes, catsfoot
- Cudbear, a fungus of species (Ochrolechia tartarea, syn. Lecanora tartarea)
Derived terms[edit]
terms derived from cudweed
- alpine arctic cudweed (Omalotheca supina)
- arctic cudweed (Omalotheca)
- Arizona cudweed (Pseudognaphalium arizonicum)
- bighead pygmycudweed (Diaperia prolifera, syn. Evax prolifera)
- California cudweed (Pseudognaphalium californicum)
- common cudweed (Euchiton involucratus or Filago vulgaris)
- creeping cudweed (Euchiton collinus, syn. Euchiton gymnocephalus)
- Dominican cudweed (Gnaphalium domingense, syn. Pseudognaphalium domingense)
- dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax)
- dwarf dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax caulescens)
- erect dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax sparsiflora)
- Heller's cudweed (Pseudognaphalium helleri)
- Jersey cudweed (Laphangium affine, syn. Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum)
- Macoun's cudweed (Pseudognaphalium macounii)
- many stem cudweed (Gnaphalium polycaulon)
- marsh cudweed (Gnaphalium uliginosum)
- Norwegian arctic cudweed (Omalotheca norvegica)
- pink cudweed (Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum)
- Pringle's cudweed (Pseudognaphalium pringlei)
- pygmy cudweed (Evax)
- rosy cudweed (Pseudognaphalium roseum)
- royal cudweed (Gnaphalium elegans, syn. Pseudognaphalium elegans)
- shortleaf dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax sparsiflora var. brevifolia)
- silver pygmycudweed (Diaperia cacdida, syn. Evax candida)
- slender cudweed (Gnaphalium exilifolium)
- spring pygmycudweed (Diaperia verna, syn. Evax verna)
- stemless dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax acaulis)
- tapered cudweed (Pseudognaphalium attenuatum)
- tropical creeping cudweed (Euchiton sphaericus)
- western marsh cudweed (Gnaphalium palustre)
- white cudweed (Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum)
- winged cudweed (Pseudognaphalium viscosum)
- wood cudweed (Gnaphalium sylvaticum)
- woodland arctic cudweed (Gnaphalum sylvaticum, syn. Omalotheca sylvatica)
- woody cudweed (Helichrysum luteoalbum)
- Wright's cudweed (Pseudognaphalium canescens)
Translations[edit]
flowering plant of the genus Gnaphalium or Pseudognaphalium
References[edit]
cudweed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “cudweed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “cudweed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
