CORN COCKLE

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Meaning:

European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America

Synonyms:

Agrostemma githago; corn campion; corn cockle; crown-of-the-field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("corn cockle" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("corn cockle" is a member of...):

Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma (a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles)

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