| 单词 | cockle buttons |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockle buttons 2. More fully cockle button, cockle buttons. The burrs of either of two burdocks of the genus Arctium, greater burdock ( A. lappa) and common burdock ( A. minus), which have hooked bristles. Also: a plant producing such burrs.Now chiefly in lists of alternative names for these plants. ΚΠ 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 295 Coccle... The bur of the bur-dock. Arctium. 1864 Peterson's Mag. Feb. 123/1 He put ‘cockle buttons’ into my bed; pinned rags and strings to my dresses;..and brushed his head with my hair-brushes. 1909 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 3 Apr. 223/2 Burdock (cockle button, cuckold dock,..and bardane) is one of the most common of American weeds. 2010 K. D. Cutler et al. Herb Gardening for Dummies (ed. 2) 265 You just know that a plant with nicknames as diverse as cockle buttons, beggar's buttons, hareburr, and love leaves..has to have a mixed reputation. < as lemmas |
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