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Xanthium

noun

coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles

• Syn: ↑genus Xanthium

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms: ↑cocklebur, ↑cockle-bur, ↑cockleburr, ↑cockle-burr

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\\ˈzan(t)thēəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek xanthion, a plant used to dye the hair yellow, from xanthos yellow

: a genus of coarse and rough or spiny herbs (family Compositae) having small heads of greenish flowers of which the pistillate enclosed in an involucre becomes a burr covered with hooked bristles — see cocklebur

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Xanˈthium noun

(Gr xanthion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow) any of a small but widely-distributed genus of composite plants whose fruits bear hooked prickles very troublesome to sheep and other animals

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Main Entry: ↑xanth-

Useful english dictionary. 2012.