gnaphalium

2 definitions found

gnaphalium - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gnaphalium \Gna*pha"li*um\, n. [Nl., from Gr. ? wool of the
     teasel.] (Bot.)
     A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and
     persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
     [1913 Webster]

gnaphalium - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Gnaphalium
      n 1: large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with
           whitish involucres [syn: Gnaphalium, genus Gnaphalium]