cotton-seed tree

cotton-seed tree
noun
a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Baccharis, ↑genus Baccharis

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