Found 2 items, similar to Xanthium.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Xanthium Xanthium n : coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles [syn: genus Xanthium]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Xanthium Xanthium \Xan"thi*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. xa`nqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the Xanthium strumarium , from xanqo`s yellow.] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur. [1913 Webster]