Definitions
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- noun Any of several species of
flowering plants , of the genus Agrostemma, in theCaryophyllaceae family.
Etymologies
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corn + cockle
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Examples
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Here you may walk many miles and even wait several harvests to see a corncockle.
Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867
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The company is also be giving away hundreds of thousands more packets of wildflower seeds, containing bee favourites such as poppies, cornflowers, white campion and corncockle.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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1 Sow your own - Make a mini wildflower meadow by sowing the Poppy Fields seed collection (£3), a vibrant swathe of scarlet field poppies, blue cornflower and pink corncockle, from
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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