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cottonweed vs everlasting

everlasting vs cottonweed

cottonweed and everlasting both are nouns.

cottonweed is not an adjective while everlasting is an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cottonweed Yes No No No
everlasting Yes Yes No No
As nouns, everlasting is a hypernym of cottonweed; that is, everlasting is a word with a broader meaning than cottonweed:
  • cottonweed: an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
  • everlasting: any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
Other hypernyms of cottonweed include everlasting flower.
cottonweed (noun) everlasting (noun)
any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
cottonweed (adjective) everlasting (adjective)
continuing forever or indefinitely
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Difference between cottonweed and everlasting

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