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- noun Plural form of
cocklebur .
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Examples
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This fact alone makes worry stick to my insides like cockleburs.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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This fact alone makes worry stick to my insides like cockleburs.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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This fact alone makes worry stick to my insides like cockleburs.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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This fact alone makes worry stick to my insides like cockleburs.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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I don't know whether this involves eating grubs, snails, and cockleburs or fighting the local stray cats for dumpster-diving rights, but I do know that Bill will be foraging where the Confederate Army tried to live off the land and nearly starved to death.
Another Shabby, Money-Grubbing Scheme I am Obliged to Support 2008
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My shoes had been lost in the struggle at the loch, and I tended to pick up stickers a cockleburs, my feet not being hardened as Jamie's were.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Burdocks, cockleburs and sticktights intentionally attach themselves to the fur of any animal who brushes up against the plant, the idea being that by the time the clinger falls off, the seeds will have traveled quite a distance.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Burdocks, cockleburs and sticktights intentionally attach themselves to the fur of any animal who brushes up against the plant, the idea being that by the time the clinger falls off, the seeds will have traveled quite a distance.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Burdocks, cockleburs and sticktights intentionally attach themselves to the fur of any animal who brushes up against the plant, the idea being that by the time the clinger falls off, the seeds will have traveled quite a distance.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Everything looked so different from this height, but the minute I saw the cockleburs, I felt my dander rise.
Changeling Galenorn, Yasmine 2007
vendingmachine commented on the word cockleburs
"Carolina parakeets were probably poisonous—American naturalist and painter John J. Audubon noted that cats apparently died from eating them, and they are known to have eaten the toxic seeds of cockleburs."
April 17, 2016