Wiktionary
cockleburr
n. (alternative form of cocklebur English)
WordNet
cockleburr
n. any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs [syn: cocklebur, cockle-bur, cockle-burr]
Usage examples of "cockleburr".
Friar Cockleburr hurried along with the preparations for a Midwinter Mossflower Feast, helped by his assistant, Alder.
It bears the title of Cockleburr, or Sticklewort, because its seed vessels cling by the hooked ends of their stiff hairs to any person or animal coming into contact with the plant.
Unlike a cockleburr caught on your hem, I am not going to be quite so easy to brush off.
If there were any justice in the world he'd've gone off into the world as a winter runaway, but nope, sticks like a cockleburr to a woolen vest.