Cocklebur

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  • noun. Any of several annual weeds of the genus Xanthium in the composite family, having small seedlike fruits enclosed within a prickly bur that clings readily to clothing or animal fur.
  • noun. A bur of this plant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The clot-bur, Xanthium Strumarium, a weedy composite plant with close spiny involucres.
  • noun. The agrimony, Agrimonia Eupatoria.
  • noun. The burdock, Arctium Lappa.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use
  • noun. any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
  • noun. any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    burdock  clotbur  weed  
    variant
    clotbur  
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