What is "chafeweed"

Chafeweed \Chafe"weed`\, n. (Bot.) The cudweed ( Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

n. The cudweed (''Gnaphalium''), used to prevent or cure chafe.

n. weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike [syn: wood cudweed, Gnaphalium sylvaticum]