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Definition of Clotburs
1. clotbur [n] - See also: clotbur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clotburs
Literary usage of Clotburs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Farm Friends and Farm Foes: A Text-book of Agricultural Science by Clarence Moores Weed (1910)
"Burdocks, clotburs and Spanish needles are examples of these. Still others have
hard nutlike fruits that are able to float upon ..."
2. Legislative Document by New York (State). Legislature (1920)
"'clotburs are among the worst weeds in regions where they are abundant. ...
clotburs should be mowed down before the fruit forms. ..."
3. Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University by Cornell University, New York State College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station (1920)
"clotburs are among .the worst weeds in regions where they are abundant. ...
clotburs should be mowed down before the fruit forms. ..."
4. Wild Flowers of New York by Homer Doliver House (1918)
"trated here, but is usually larger in every way, the beaks of the bur being almost
straight and more or less divergent. The clotburs (Xanthium) are usually ..."
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