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corn cockle

DEFINITIONS OF: corn cockle

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n European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America

Synonyms:
Agrostemma githago, corn campion, crown-of-the-field
Type of:
weed
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
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