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Meanings of cockle-bur in English

Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs.

        Usage of cockle-bur in English
        1
        Some find their sheets strewed with chaff or cockle-burs, some find no sheets at all.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        2
        He was a mass of cockle-burs.
        Crooked Trails
        3
        They render the farmer great service, by eating the cockle-burs which grow on the rich alluvial soil of Carolina.
        The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...