noun
coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles
• Syn: ↑Xanthium
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family
• Member Meronyms: ↑cocklebur, ↑cockle-bur, ↑cockleburr, ↑cockle-burr
Useful english dictionary. 2012.