cocklebur
1. 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 • Syn: great burdock, greater burdock, Arctium lappa • Hypernyms: burdock, clotbur 2. any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs • Syn: cockle-bur, cockleburr, cockle-burr • Hypernyms: weed • Member Holonyms: Xanthium, genus Xanthium
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