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Significats de cocklebur en anglès

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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.

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        xanthium

        Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs.

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              Examples for "great burdock"
              Examples for "great burdock"
              1
              Only somewhere close by, persistently a great burdock leaf flapped and whispered.
              Dream Tales and Prose Poems
              2
              At the water's edge grew great burdocks.
              The Child's World: Third Reader
              3
              Great burdock stems lie prostrate.
              The Amateur Poacher
              1
              Arctium lappa L. is a traditional medicine in Asia.
              Pubmed
              Ús de cocklebur en anglès
              1
              The Doctor employed two of these arms to grip the cocklebur.
              The Diamond Age
              2
              Under Hackworth's direction he rotated the cocklebur until a small spine-free patch came into view.
              The Diamond Age
              3
              It looked completely different from all the other mites, because, as a cocklebur, its sole job was to stick to whatever touched it first.
              The Diamond Age
              4
              The cockleburs had already self-destructed, leaving no evidence of his crime.
              The Diamond Age
              5
              And now to the uproar was added the howls of limping infants and cockleburred childhood.
              Cabbages and Kings
              6
              Nothing but maybe beggar-lice and cockleburs now.
              God’s Little Acre
              7
              Mestral, a Swiss engineer, returned home after a walk in 1948 to find cockleburs stuck to his coat.
              Mental floss presents instant knowledge
              8
              After examining one under a microscope, he noted that cockleburs attach to clothes and fur via thin hooks.
              Mental floss presents instant knowledge
              9
              "Ye look like ye've got a cocklebur stuck betwixt your hurdies."
              Dangerous Women
              10
              To the sources previously mentioned may be added pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, raspberry seeds, tobacco seeds, cockleburs, hazelnuts, walnuts, beechnuts and acorns.
              Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Ch...
              Translations for cocklebur
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