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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Xanthium \Xan"thi*um\, n. [NL., fr Gr xa`nqion a plant used
for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the {Xanthium
strumarium}, from xanqo`s yellow.] (Bot.)
A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the
involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur;
clotbur.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
Xanthium
n : coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed
by burrs with hooked bristles [syn: {Xanthium}, {genus
Xanthium}]
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