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Words with a similar base: cottonweed

'cottonweed'

[pearly_everlasting.n.01] as in: an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts

'cottonweed'

[cottonweed.n.02] as in: any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers

Origins

					cottonweed (English)
├── cotton (English)
│   └── cotoun (Middle English (1100-1500))
│       └── cotun (Anglo-Norman)
└── weed (English)
    ├── weod (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
    ├── weodian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
    └── wæd (Old English (ca. 450-1100))