Cudweed. World English Historical Dictionary

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[f. CUD sb.: the plant being administered to cattle that had lost their cud.] The common name for the genus Gnaphalium of composite plants, having chaffy scales surrounding the flower-heads: originally proper to G. sylvaticum; extended to other plants, of allied genera, or similar appearance.

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1548.  Turner, Names of Herbes, 25. Centunculus … maye be called in englishe Chafweede, it is called in Yorke shyre cudweede.

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1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, II. cxcv. 515. English Cudweed hath sundrie slender and vpright stalks.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. 76/1. The Cotton Weed or Cud-Weed.

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1854.  S. Thomson, Wild Fl., III. (ed. 4), 248. The little silvery-looking cudweeds, or Gnaphaliums.

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1879.  Prior, Plant-n., Sea-Cudweed, Diotis maritima.

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1884.  Miller, Plant-n., American Cud-weed, Antennaria margaritacea. Golden C., Pterocaulon virgatum.

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