| NOUN | plant | cocklebur, cockle-bur, cockleburr, cockle-burr | any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs |
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| plant | cocklebur, great burdock, greater burdock, Arctium lappa | burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor |
| Meaning | Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs. | |
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| Synonyms | cockle-bur, cockleburr, cockle-burr | |
| Member of | Xanthium, genus Xanthium | coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles |
| Broader | weed | Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | great burdock, greater burdock, Arctium lappa | |
| Broader | burdock, clotbur | Any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs |
| Spanish | xanthium | |
| Catalan | Arctium lappa, xanthium | |
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