cudweed

English

California cudweed (Pseudognaphalium californicum)

Etymology

cud +‎ weed, or perhaps an alteration of cottonweed or cut weed (referring to its application to cuts and chafings).

Noun

cudweed (countable and uncountable, plural cudweeds)

1. Any of many of species of flowering plants in family Asteraceae of several genera:
   1. Gamochaeta, with species in North and South America
   2. Gnaphalium, with species in Eurasia and the Americas
   3. Pseudognaphalium, native to North America
   4. Filago, of Eurasia and North America
   5. Euchiton, native to Australasia and the Pacific
   6. Helichrysum, occurring in Africa, Australasia and Eurasia.
2. Antennaria dioica

   Synonyms: mountain everlasting, stoloniferous pussytoes, catsfoot

3. Cudbear, a fungus of species (Ochrolechia tartarea, syn. Lecanora tartarea)

Derived terms

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

flowering plant of the genus Gnaphalium or Pseudognaphalium

• Bulgarian: смин (smin)
• Dutch: droogbloem (nl) m
• Finnish: jäkkärä (fi)
• Hungarian: gyopár (hu)
• Portuguese: gnafálio m

References

• cudweed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cudweed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “cudweed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.