cocklebur

English

Spiny cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum.

Etymology

cockle +‎ bur

Noun

cocklebur (plural cockleburs)

Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.

Synonyms

clotbur, Xanthium

Translations

any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit

Bulgarian: рогачица f (rogačica)
Catalan: espina-xoca f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蒼耳／苍耳 (zh) (cāng'ěr), 葹 (zh) (shī)
Czech: řepeň f
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: sappiruoho (fi)
French: xanthium (fr) m, lampourde (fr) f
German: Spitzklette f
Greek:
Ancient: ξάνθιον n (xánthion)
Italian: nappola f
Polish: rzepień m
Portuguese: arzola (pt) f
Russian: дурни́шник (ru) m (durníšnik)
Serbo-Croatian: dȉkica (sh) f, číčak (sh) m (amongst other meanings), repinac m
Slovak: voškovník m
Slovene: bodìč m
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: gullfrö n

Further reading

Xanthium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Xanthium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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