cockleburr

Questions about cockleburr

What does cockleburr mean?

cockleburr means "any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs".

How many syllables are in cockleburr?

cockleburr has 3 syllables and divides as coc-kle-burr under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cockleburr?

Close synonyms include cocklebur, cockle-bur, cockle-burr. 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 cockleburr a common word?

cockleburr 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.