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Definition of Agrostemma githago
1. Noun. European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America.
Group relationships: Agrostemma, Genus Agrostemma
Generic synonyms: Weed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agrostemma Githago
Literary usage of Agrostemma githago
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Seeds numerous, black. [Greek. a field-garland.] Two known species, natives of
Europe and Asia, the following typical. 1. agrostemma githago L. Corn Cockle. ..."
2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"agrostemma githago, L. (cockle or corn-cockle). —The large, characteristic seed,
of a dull black colour, beset with fine protuberances, and having obtuse ..."
3. The Flora of Berkshire: Being a Topographical and Historical Account of the by George Claridge Druce (1897)
"agrostemma githago. Too common, Major's Ayr. Berks, 1809. 1. Isis. Pusey, Boswell.
Carswell, Miss M. Niren. ... This is probably the Agrostemma- Githago, ..."
4. The Chemical Gazette, Or, Journal of Practical Chemistry, in All Its by William Francis, Henry Croft (1850)
"Nearly seventeen years ago I undertook an examination of the seeds of the corn
cockle, agrostemma githago. The memoir upon them was not however published ..."
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