xanthium
IPA: zˈænθiʌm
Root Word: Xanthium
noun
- (cocklebur) a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia and some parts of south Asia .Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753.
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Examples of "xanthium" in Sentences
- Gimme an MSG sandwich with a xanthium gum chaser, to go!
- Three thousand maybe, foreign substance and things like xanthium gum, which is an artificial thickener, ammonium carbonate, which is a synthetic leavening agent that doesn't sound organic to me.
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