cocklebur

Noun
  1. Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs (synset 112053608)
    is a type of: weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
    belongs to: genus xanthium, xanthium - coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles
    same as: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr
  2. 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 (synset 111945318)
    is a type of: burdock, clotbur - any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
    same as: arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock

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