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COTTON-SEED TREE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
Synonyms:
Baccharis halimifolia; consumption weed; cotton-seed tree; groundsel bush; groundsel tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cotton-seed tree" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("cotton-seed tree" is a member of...):
Baccharis; genus Baccharis (shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control)
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