chafeweed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike
    wood cudweed; Gnaphalium sylvaticum.

WordNet


Chafe"weed` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

Webster 1913