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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Xanthium, genus Xanthiumnoun

    coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles

Wikipedia

  1. Xanthium

    Xanthium (cocklebur) is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia and some parts of south Asia .

Webster Dictionary

  1. Xanthiumnoun

    a genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur

  2. Etymology: [NL., fr. Gr. xa`nqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the Xanthium strumarium, from xanqo`s yellow.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Xanthium

    zan′thi-um, n. a weedy plant of the aster family.—Also Cockle-bur, Clot-bur.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Xanthium

    A plant genus of the family ASTERACEAE. The name "prickly burweed" is sometimes used but causes confusion with AMSINCKIA.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of XANTHIUM in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of XANTHIUM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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