chafeweed

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chafeweed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Chafeweed \Chafe"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
     The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.
     [1913 Webster]

chafeweed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  chafeweed
      n 1: weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly
           foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike [syn:
           chafeweed, wood cudweed, Gnaphalium sylvaticum]