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Corn Cockle

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Noun

1. agrostemma githago, corn campion, corn cockle, crown-of-the-field

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Corn Cockle

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a tall annual weed (Agrostemma githago) of the pink family, with flat, pinkish flowers and poisonous seeds, often found in grainfields

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Corn Cockle

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n.
A weedy annual Mediterranean plant (Agrostemma githago) in the pink family, having reddish-purple flowers and narrow opposite leaves.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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