cotton-seed tree

Definitions of cotton-seed tree
  1. noun
    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, groundsel bush, groundsel tree
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    type of:
    bush, shrub
    a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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