Cotton rose Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night; widely cultivated; naturalized in southeastern United States
    Confederate rose mallow; Confederate rose; Hibiscus mutabilis.
  2. noun any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads
    cudweed; filago.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs (Filago), covered with a white substance resembling cotton.

Webster 1913