XANTHIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Xanthium mean? 

• XANTHIUM (noun)
  The noun XANTHIUM has 1 sense:

1. coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles

  Familiarity information: XANTHIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• XANTHIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Xanthium; Xanthium

Hypernyms ("Xanthium" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Xanthium"):

cockle-bur; cockle-burr; cocklebur; cockleburr (any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs)

Holonyms ("Xanthium" is a member of...):

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)