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cotton grass

NOUN
  1. any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes

How To Use cotton grass In A Sentence

  • The Cotton grass has tiny flowers with tufts of white silky hairs at the top of a stalk.
  • Meadow pipits, commonest of upland birds, negotiated undulating flight paths over white tufts of cotton grass.
  • Skylarks sang over the wetlands, carnivorous butterworts were in violet flower and cotton grass fluffed up the land.
  • Bog asphodels and a circle of cotton grass brightened the rushes.
  • Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
  • Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
  • Conversion to grassland also explains much of the loss of healthy shrubs, coarse grasses, cotton grass and rushes.
  • Conversion to grassland also explains much of the loss of healthy shrubs, coarse grasses, cotton grass and rushes.
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