Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs.
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Examples for "cocklebur "
Examples for "cocklebur "
1 The Doctor employed two of these arms to grip the cocklebur .
2 Under Hackworth's direction he rotated the cocklebur until a small spine-free patch came into view.
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.
4 The cockleburs had already self-destructed, leaving no evidence of his crime.
5 And now to the uproar was added the howls of limping infants and cockleburred childhood.
1 With the cockleburr crushing the wheat.
2 But then these the righteous and put cockleburrs in the back hair of the godly.
3 Why, the factory where they use them cockleburrs .
4 That 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."
1 Some find their sheets strewed with chaff or cockle - burs , some find no sheets at all.
2 He was a mass of cockle - burs .
3 They render the farmer great service, by eating the cockle - burs which grow on the rich alluvial soil of Carolina.
1 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.
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