bur marigold

Questions about bur marigold

What is another word for bur marigold?

It depends which bur marigold you mean. In the sense “any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing”, the synonyms are burr marigold, beggar-ticks, beggar's-ticks, sticktight. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bur marigold?

WordNet records no antonym for bur marigold. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bur marigold come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for bur marigoldAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bur marigoldWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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