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chafeweed

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chafe⋅weed

[cheyf-weed]
–noun
wood cudweed.

Origin:
1540–50; chafe + weed 1

wood cudweed

–noun
a weedy, composite plant, Gnaphalium sylvaticum, of the North Temperate Zone, having woolly foliage and numerous, dirty-white flowerheads in a leafy spike.
Also called chafeweed.
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