pussytoes

pussytoes
or pussy's-toes noun plural but singular or plural in construction Date: 1892 any of a genus (Antennaria) of woolly or hoary chiefly temperate perennial composite herbs that have small usually whitish discoid flower heads and a pappus formed of club-shaped bristles

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