One of the pigs ate a cocklebur plant and died.
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Cocklebur
Synonyms for "cocklebur" (12 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (6)
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22 translations across 18 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ξάνθιον noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Bulgarian
1 entries- рогачица noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Catalan
1 entries- espina-xoca noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 葹 noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
- 蒼耳 /苍耳 noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Czech
1 entries- řepeň noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Finnish
1 entries- sappiruoho noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
French
2 entries- lampourde noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
- xanthium noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
German
1 entries- Spitzklette noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Italian
1 entries- nappola noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Latin
1 entries- xanthium noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Polish
1 entries- rzepień noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Portuguese
1 entries- arzola noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Russian
1 entries- дурни́шник noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- dȉkica noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
- repinac noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
- číčak noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Slovak
1 entries- voškovník noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Slovene
1 entries- bodìč noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Swedish
1 entries- gullfrö noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Turkish
1 entries- pıtrak noun (any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
No human poisonings from cocklebur are known but seeds and seedlings are toxic and potentially fatal to animals.
Source: tatoeba (12073701)
Fig. 1.—Spiculated pollens of ragweeds (ambrosias) low in protein. […] In the cocklebur (Xanthium americanum) and the rough wild elder (Iva ciliata), the spicules are shorter, being 0.7 and 0.5 microns, and the reaction is proportionately less active than with the ragweeds (ambrosias). […] While the grass pollens have so light a coat that they are frequently crushed in the ordinary process of mounting, the ragweed (ambrosias) pollen grains resist pressure between two glass slides carried to the point of crushing the glass.
Source: wiktionary
These burrs stuck to the tails of the cows as they walked by, and were brought to the cowpen, the cowtails greatly enlarged by the huge amount of cockleburs stuck on them.
Source: wiktionary
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