Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cocklebur

2 senses of cocklebur

Sense 1
cocklebur, cockle-bur, cockleburr, cockle-burr -- (any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs)
       => weed -- (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Sense 2
great burdock, greater burdock, cocklebur, Arctium lappa -- (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, clotbur -- (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)