ˈcotton-grass
A general name for the species of Eriophorum, referring to its heads of long white silky hairs.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. xxi. §1. 27 Cotton grasse groweth vpon bogs. 1854 S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 170 The hare-tail cotton grass..blossoms in March. 1884 Jefferies Red Deer ii. 28 Acres of cotton-grass, waving like little white flags in the wind. |