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.
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.