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Значения термина cocklebur на английском

каталонский
xanthium
испанский
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.

              Использование термина cocklebur на английском
              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.
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              Translations for cocklebur
              каталонский
              xanthium
              испанский
              xanthium