Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs.
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Examples for "cocklebur"
Examples for "cocklebur"
1The Doctor employed two of these arms to grip the cocklebur.
2Under Hackworth's direction he rotated the cocklebur until a small spine-free patch came into view.
3It looked completely different from all the other mites, because, as a cocklebur, its sole job was to stick to whatever touched it first.
4The cockleburs had already self-destructed, leaving no evidence of his crime.
5And now to the uproar was added the howls of limping infants and cockleburred childhood.
1With the cockleburr crushing the wheat.
2But then these the righteous and put cockleburrs in the back hair of the godly.
3Why, the factory where they use them cockleburrs.
4That night he ripped open a corner of it and took out a handful of the cockleburrs.
5"But more the cockleburr than the earbug, if the truth be known."
1The mean, pusillanimous fever which took under-hold of me two months ago is still THERE, as impregnably fixed as a cockle-burr in a sheep's tail.
1Some find their sheets strewed with chaff or cockle-burs, some find no sheets at all.
2He was a mass of cockle-burs.
3They render the farmer great service, by eating the cockle-burs which grow on the rich alluvial soil of Carolina.