cotton-seed_tree
1. [ noun ] (botany) a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
Synonyms: groundsel_bush consumption_weed Baccharis_halimifolia groundsel_tree
Related terms: shrub Baccharis
Similar spelling:   cottonseed_cake
  cottonseed_oil