Cottonweed \Cot"ton*weed`\ (-w[=e]d`), n. (Bot.) See {Cudweed}.
cottonweed n 1: American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts [syn: {pearly everlasting}, {Anaphalis margaritacea}] 2: any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers