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Coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles
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xanthium
Word definitions for xanthium in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Xanthium \Xan"thi*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. xa`nqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the Xanthium strumarium , from xanqo`s yellow.] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind ...
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Xanthium ( cocklebur ) is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower tribe within the daisy family , native to the Americas and eastern Asia .
Usage examples of xanthium.
On Xanthia, he would have planted his seed in Adana, and then never seen her again.