|  cocklebur 
 
 1. 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
 • Syn:
 great burdock, greater burdock, Arctium lappa
 • Hypernyms:
 burdock, clotbur
 2. any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
 • Syn:
 cockle-bur, cockleburr, cockle-burr
 • Hypernyms:
 weed
 • Member Holonyms:
 Xanthium, genus Xanthium
 
 
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