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xanthium
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xanthium, n. [NL., fr. Gr. xa`nqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the Xanthium strumarium , from xanqo`s yellow.].
A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur. [1913 Webster]
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