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Significados de cocklebur em inglês

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xanthium
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xanthium
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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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              With the cockleburr crushing the wheat.
              New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
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              But then these the righteous and put cockleburrs in the back hair of the godly.
              The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
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              Why, the factory where they use them cockleburrs.
              Cabbages and Kings
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              That night he ripped open a corner of it and took out a handful of the cockleburrs.
              Cabbages and Kings
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              "But more the cockleburr than the earbug, if the truth be known."
              Ashes Of Victory
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              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 ...
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              He was a mass of cockle-burs.
              Crooked Trails
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              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...
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              The 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.
              Sidney Lanier
              Uso de cocklebur em inglês
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              The Doctor employed two of these arms to grip the cocklebur.
              The Diamond Age
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              Under Hackworth's direction he rotated the cocklebur until a small spine-free patch came into view.
              The Diamond Age
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              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
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              The cockleburs had already self-destructed, leaving no evidence of his crime.
              The Diamond Age
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              And now to the uproar was added the howls of limping infants and cockleburred childhood.
              Cabbages and Kings
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              Nothing but maybe beggar-lice and cockleburs now.
              God’s Little Acre
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              Mestral, a Swiss engineer, returned home after a walk in 1948 to find cockleburs stuck to his coat.
              Mental floss presents instant knowledge
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              After examining one under a microscope, he noted that cockleburs attach to clothes and fur via thin hooks.
              Mental floss presents instant knowledge
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              "Ye look like ye've got a cocklebur stuck betwixt your hurdies."
              Dangerous Women
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              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...
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              xanthium
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              xanthium