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Definition of Bur marigold
1. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing.
Group relationships: Bidens, Genus Bidens
Specialized synonyms: Bidens Bipinnata, Spanish Needles, Bidens Coronata, Bidens Trichosperma, Tickseed Sunflower, Bidens Tripartita, European Beggar-ticks, Trifid Beggar-ticks, Trifid Bur Marigold, Bidens Connata, Swampy Beggar-ticks
Terms within: Beggar-ticks, Spanish Needles
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Definition of Bur marigold
1. Noun. A plant, the beggar's ticks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bur Marigold
Literary usage of Bur marigold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"... serrate or almost but rarely clasping; achenes slightly contracted at summit.—San
Francisco, ace. to Wiegand. 2. B. cernua L. SMALLER. bur marigold. ..."
2. Florigraphia Britannica; Or, Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering by Richard Deakin (1857)
"Bur-marigold. Nat. Ord. COMPOSI'TЖ. Josa. GEN. CRAR. ... Nodding Bur-marigold.
Head drooping; leaves of involucre lanceolate, entire, longer than the flower ..."
3. Familiar Wild Flowers by Frederick Edward Hulme (1902)
"As the name of our plant dwells emphatically on the fact that it is the trifid
bur-marigold, the idea naturally suggests itself to us that somewhere or ..."
4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1890)
"B. CERNUA, L. Smaller bur marigold. Margins of ponds and streams. ... (Greater
bur marigold.) Alluvial flats. At the foot of Parliament Hill are some tall ..."
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