bur marigold

Questions about bur marigold

What does bur marigold mean?

bur marigold means "any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing".

What is another word for bur marigold?

Close synonyms include burr marigold, beggar-ticks, beggar's-ticks, sticktight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bur marigold a common word?

bur marigold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.