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<botany> A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.
Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Xanqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the Xanthium strumarium, from xanqos = yellow.
(01 Mar 1998)
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