D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Xanthium

· Xan·thi·um · IPA
01 n. A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.
  1. 1.
    A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.(Bot.)