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Webster 1913 Edition
Xanthium
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Xan′thi-um
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ξάνθιον
a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the Xanthium strumarium
, from ξανθόσ
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.