cocklebur

/ˌkɑkəlˈbʌr/

Other forms: cockleburs

Definitions of cocklebur

1. noun

   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
   synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock

   type of:

   burdock, clotbur

   any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
2. noun

   any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
   synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr

   type of:

   weed

   any plant that crowds out cultivated plants