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cocklebur vs burdock

burdock vs cocklebur

cocklebur and burdock both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cocklebur Yes No No No
burdock Yes No No No
As nouns, burdock is a hypernym of cocklebur; that is, burdock is a word with a broader meaning than cocklebur:
  • cocklebur: burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use
  • burdock: any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
Other hypernyms of cocklebur include clotbur.
cocklebur (noun) burdock (noun)
any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use
Difference between cocklebur and burdock

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