Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The clot-bur, Xanthium Strumarium, a weedy composite plant with close spiny involucres.
- noun The agrimony, Agrimonia Eupatoria.
- noun The burdock, Arctium Lappa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also
clotbur .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the coarse composite
weeds of the genusXanthium , with aprickly fruit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
- 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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The light infantry will be hidden in the switchgrass, and, hopefully, avoiding the cocklebur.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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Among species characteristic of this habitat are Russian thistle, cocklebur, witchgrass, inland Sea Rocket and velvetleaf.
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio 2007
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Which brought me to the present: host to a flea circus, stuck to a cocklebur plant, with an unknown intruder watching me from the woods who was packing a butt load of cat magic.
Changeling Galenorn, Yasmine 2007
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Inculcating and deluding the masses with a multi-billion dollar barrage of agitprop and sophistry potent enough to penetrate the minds of the most adroit thinkers, the moneyed interests behind corporatism and exploitative Capitalism have created a false dichotomy that clings to our collective psyche like a cocklebur deeply embedded in a wool sock.
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For Bush, who is known to spend early-morning hours hacking at unwanted mesquite, cocklebur weeds, hanging limbs and underbrush only to go back for more after lunch, it borders on obsession.
Hullabaloo 2005
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For Bush, who is known to spend early-morning hours hacking at unwanted mesquite, cocklebur weeds, hanging limbs and underbrush only to go back for more after lunch, it borders on obsession.
Hullabaloo 2005
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For Bush, who is known to spend early-morning hours hacking at unwanted mesquite, cocklebur weeds, hanging limbs and underbrush only to go back for more after lunch, it borders on obsession.
Hullabaloo 2005
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It rankled in his mind like a cocklebur, raising question after question.
A Man Of Honour Leonard, Tina 2001
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And so the man walks around and around again and finally sees the cocklebur.
Coyote Medicine M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona 1997
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And so the man walks around and around again and finally sees the cocklebur.
Coyote Medicine M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona 1997
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