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Definition of Lavender cotton
1. Noun. Branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Santolina, Santolina
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Lavender cotton
1. Noun. Ground cypress, ''Santolina Chamaecyparissus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavender Cotton
Literary usage of Lavender cotton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"Lavender- cotton, with a larger Flower, and hoary Leaves. 3. ... Lavender-cotton
with dark-green Leaves, and a golden Flower. 8. ..."
2. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"The lavender cotton was common in gardens in Gerard's time, who says it is acrid,
bitter, and aromatic, and has much the same qualities as southernwood. ..."
3. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"The lavender cotton was common in gardens in Gerard's time, who says it is acrid,
bitter, and aromatic, and bus much the same qualities as southernwood. ..."
4. Hardy Flowers: Descriptions of Upwards of Thirteen Hundred of the Most by William Robinson (1878)
"Dwarfer, neater in habit, and whiter than the common lavender cotton. ...
Suited for the same positions, etc., as the lavender cotton, but is not so ..."
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