||Xan"thi*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
xa`nqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to
be the Xanthium strumarium, from xanqo`s yellow.]
(Bot.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of
the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur;
clotbur.
||Xan"thi*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
xa`nqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to
be the Xanthium strumarium, from xanqo`s yellow.]
(Bot.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of
the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur;
clotbur.
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