Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cocklebur

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cock-le-bur
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From cockle + bur.

Inflected Forms

cockleburs (plural)

Phrases

Argentine cocklebur beach cocklebur common cocklebur rough cocklebur smoothish cocklebur spiny cocklebur

Synonyms

clotbur great burdock greater burdock arctium lappa cockle-bur cockleburr cockle-burr

Questions

What does cocklebur mean?: Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.
Where does cocklebur come from?: From cockle + bur.

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