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CORN COCKLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
Synonyms:
Agrostemma githago; corn campion; corn cockle; crown-of-the-field
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("corn cockle" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Holonyms ("corn cockle" is a member of...):
Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)
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