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Arctic cotton

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum sp., found in the Far North.

See: Eskimo cotton

Quotations

1936

Arctic cotton plant, the bloom of which, together with the soft sphagnum mosses, is used for wicks of Eskimo lamps.

1951

The dwarfish Arctic cotton made dots of white against blotches of moss. . . .

1955

[Caption] Arctic Cotton Grass annually produces these silky white spheres that rise upward on slender reedlike stems from shallow fresh-water pools. . . .