Noun
- 1. pearly everlasting, cottonweed, Anaphalis margaritacea, everlasting, everlasting flower
- usage: an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
- 2. cottonweed, herb, herbaceous plant
- usage: 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
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