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Definition: Cocklebur |
CockleburNoun1. Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs. 2. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CockleburSynonyms: cockleburr (n), great burdock (n), greater burdock (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cocklebur |
| English words defined with "cocklebur": Clotweed. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cocklebur | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cocklebur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | skraeppebrodfroe (broad cocklebur, burweed). (various references) | |
Dutch | ongedoornde stekelnoot (broad cocklebur, burweed). (various references) | |
Finnish | karvasappiruoho (broad cocklebur, burweed), karheasappiruoho (Italian cocklebur, US beach cocklebur). (various references) | |
French | lampourde d'Italie (Italian cocklebur, US beach cocklebur), lampourde (broad cocklebur). (various references) | |
German | italienische Spitzklette (Italian cocklebur, US beach cocklebur), gemeine Spitzklette (broad cocklebur, burweed). (various references) | |
Greek | ξάνθιον το χοιράδιον (broad cocklebur, burweed), ξάνθιο το χοιράδιο (Italian cocklebur, US beach cocklebur), αγριομελιτζάνα (Italian cocklebur, US beach cocklebur). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לכי" (xanthium). (various references) | |
Italian | lappolona (broad cocklebur, burweed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockleburcay.(various references) | |
Spanish | bardana menor (broad cocklebur, burweed, lesser burdock), abrojo grande (Italian cocklebur, US beach cocklebur). (various references) | |
Swedish | gullfrö (broad cocklebur, burweed, Italian cocklebur, US beach cocklebur). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Xanthium californicum Greene, Xanthium strumarium, Xanthium strumarium L. ssp. italicum D. Loeve. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cocklebur": cockleburs. (additional references) | |
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"Cocklebur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crockenburg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-e-k-l-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: blocker, buckler, clocker, roebuck. | |
-3 letters: boucle, bucker, buckle, cocker, cockle, colure, corbel, locker, recock, relock, rouble, ruckle. | |
-4 letters: block, bloke, bluer, bocce, boule, brock, broke, bucko, burke, ceorl, clerk, clock, clour, cluck, coble, crock, cruck, cruel, cuber, lucre, occur, ocker, roble, ruble, ulcer. | |
-5 letters: beck, bloc, blue, blur, bock, bole, bore, buck, bulk, burl. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-e-k-l-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: cockleburs. | |
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