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    CORN COCKLE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    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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