(n) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike, Syn. Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed
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‖n. [ Nl., from Gr. &unr_; wool of the teasel. ] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting. [ 1913 Webster ]