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Definition of Common cotton grass
1. Noun. Having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Cotton Grass
Literary usage of Common cotton grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1837)
"Common Cotton-grass. Stem somewhat triangular ; leaves linear; channelled ;
spike-stalks smooth ; hairs four times feet high, jointed, and leafy: spikes ..."
2. The History of the County of Dublin by John D'Alton (1838)
"In bog holes, eriophorum angustifolium, common cotton grass, the down of which,
in Germany and more northern countries, has been manufactured into various ..."
3. Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them by Margaret Plues (1879)
"... and a great number of small drooping spikes. I gathered it in fruit in May a
few years ago, in a shaking bog near Tiverton. The common Cotton-grass (E. ..."
4. Flora Devoniensis: Or A Descriptive Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild in the by John Pike Jones, H.j.f Kingston (1829)
"... (common Cotton-grass,) culm sub- triangular; leaves linear, grooved ; spikes
many, pedunculate, shorter than the involucre. EB t. 564. HAB. ..."
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