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CORN CAMPION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corn campion mean?
• CORN CAMPION (noun)
The noun CORN CAMPION has 1 sense:
1. European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
Familiarity information: CORN CAMPION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Agrostemma githago; corn campion; corn cockle; crown-of-the-field
Hypernyms ("corn campion" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Holonyms ("corn campion" is a member of...):
Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)
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