COCKLEBUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cocklebur mean? 

• COCKLEBUR (noun)
  The noun COCKLEBUR has 2 senses:

1. any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs

2. 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

  Familiarity information: COCKLEBUR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKLEBUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cockle-bur; cockle-burr; cocklebur; cockleburr

Hypernyms ("cocklebur" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("cocklebur" is a member of...):

genus Xanthium; Xanthium (coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles)

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arctium lappa; cocklebur; great burdock; greater burdock

Hypernyms ("cocklebur" is a kind of...):

burdock; clotbur (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)