CORN COCKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corn cockle mean? 

• CORN COCKLE (noun)
  The noun CORN COCKLE has 1 sense:

1. European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America

  Familiarity information: CORN COCKLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORN COCKLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agrostemma githago; corn campion; corn cockle; crown-of-the-field

Hypernyms ("corn cockle" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("corn cockle" is a member of...):

Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)