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Large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres
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gnaphalium
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Gnaphalium is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family , commonly called cudweeds . They are widespread and common in temperate regions, although some are found on tropical mountains or in the subtropical regions of the world. Cudweeds are important ...
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n. Any of the genus ''Gnaphalium'' of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
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Gnaphalium \Gna*pha"li*um\, n. [Nl., from Gr. ? wool of the teasel.] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.