different between downy vs cottonweed

English

From down +? -y.

downy (comparative downier, superlative downiest)

Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
Sharp-witted, perceptive.
- 1947, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Speech in UK House of Commons, 10th November 1947:
(Britain, Norfolk) Low-spirited; down in the mouth.

downy (plural downies)

cotton +? weed

cottonweed (countable and uncountable, plural cottonweeds)

Any of several unrelated plants that have downy heads
1. especially such plants of the genus Froelichia.

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