释义 |
xan·thi·um \ˈzan(t)thēəm\ noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Greek xanthion, a plant used to dye the hair yellow, from xanthos yellow : a genus of coarse and rough or spiny herbs (family Compositae) having small heads of greenish flowers of which the pistillate enclosed in an involucre becomes a burr covered with hooked bristles — see cocklebur |