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BUR MARIGOLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bur marigold mean?
• BUR MARIGOLD (noun)
The noun BUR MARIGOLD has 1 sense:
1. any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
Familiarity information: BUR MARIGOLD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
beggar's-ticks; beggar-ticks; bur marigold; burr marigold; sticktight
Hypernyms ("bur marigold" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Meronyms (parts of "bur marigold"):
beggar-ticks; Spanish needles (the seed of bur marigolds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bur marigold"):
Bidens bipinnata; Spanish needles (common bur marigold of the eastern United States)
Bidens coronata; Bidens trichosperma; tickseed sunflower (North American bur marigold with large flowers)
Bidens tripartita; European beggar-ticks; trifid beggar-ticks; trifid bur marigold (bur marigold of temperate Eurasia)
Bidens connata; swampy beggar-ticks (bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows)
Holonyms ("bur marigold" is a member of...):
Bidens; genus Bidens (bur marigolds)
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