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COCKLEBUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Arctium lappa; cocklebur; great burdock; greater burdock
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cocklebur" is a kind of...):
burdock; clotbur (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
Synonyms:
cockle-bur; cockle-burr; cocklebur; cockleburr
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("cocklebur" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Holonyms ("cocklebur" is a member of...):
genus Xanthium; Xanthium (coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles)
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