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Definition of "cudweed" []

  • Any of various woolly plants of the genus Gnaphalium in the composite family, having small whitish or yellowish flower heads. (noun)
  • Any of several similar and related plants in the genus Filago. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "cudweed" in a sentence
  • "Yomogi/ Kusa Dango: Mugwort flavored dumplings kusa dango were originally flavored with cudweed"
  • "Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries,"
  • "Adults also gathered medicinal herbs: cinquefoil ground to a powder for bodily aches, cudweed for diarrhea, oak root as an eyewash, crushed sage for colds, the osha root for coughs, and the like."
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