Found 2 hits - Term: xanthium, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
xanthium \xan"thium\, n. nl., fr. gr. xa`nqion a plant used
for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the xanthium
strumarium, from xanqo`s yellow. bot.
a genus of composite plants in which the scales of the
involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur;
clotbur.
1913 webster
see also:
xanthium strumarium
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
xanthium
n : coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed
by burrs with hooked bristles syn: genus xanthium
see also:
genus xanthium
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