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Webster 1913 Edition
Xanthium
‖
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.
Definition 2025
Xanthium
Xanthium
Translingual
Proper noun
Xanthium n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – cockleburs.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family Asteroideae - subfamily; Heliantheae - tribe; Ambrosiinae - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Xanthium ambrosioides, Xanthium orientale, Xanthium pungens, Xanthium spinosum, Xanthium strumarium - species