burr marigold

Questions about burr marigold

What is another word for burr marigold?

It depends which burr 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 bur 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 burr marigold?

WordNet records no antonym for burr 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 burr 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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