The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cocklebur \Coc"kle*bur`\, n. (Bot.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus ''Xanthium'', with a prickly fruit.
WordNet
n. any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs [syn: cockle-bur, cockleburr, cockle-burr]
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]
Usage examples of "cocklebur".
It looked completely different from all the other mites, because, as a cocklebur, its sole job was to stick to whatever touched it first.
Victorian settee and let her mind clear, so that she might see this thing lying under her thoughts like a cocklebur under a saddle blanket.
She stuck like a cocklebur until Ramses detached her and carried her away.
Orgoch, her black hood shrouding her features, sat on a rickety stool, trying without great success to tease cockleburs from a lapful of wool shearings.
Her hair was down about her shoulders and all of her was covered with mud, cockleburs, and what looked to be dried blood.
Houston paused while she pulled thorns and fat cockleburs off her clothing and a few from her hair.
Taggert house two hours later, there was dirt on their clothes, cockleburs in their hair, and their faces were flushed.
A few paces ahead, a jagged rectangle of light fell from a window onto a tangle of sea grass, cockleburs, and dirty sand.
Fox Trotter and a rich chocolate brown with a darker mane and tail, now matted with cockleburs and beggar-lice.
Wires extend from their sides and corners so that they look like cockleburs and can be stuck together to make variously shaped figures in which the differently colored blocks are held apart by wires.
Turning back the sheets, he grimaced at the nettles and cockleburs liberally strewn within.
The playground here was a sloping gravel lot, sparsely tufted with grass and cockleburs, enclosed on three sides by a hurricane fence and on the east by the school itself.
Given the dirt and resin stains adhering to it, no one could possibly have told whether I had picked up cockleburs, bramble thorns, or even a horseshoe nail.
Tearing through sea grass, cockleburs, wild azaleas, yucca plants, and a thousand species of lowland brier bushes, Joey ran full out ahead of us for what seemed like a couple hundred yards.