Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of composite plants, of the tribe Helianthoideæ and subtribe Ambrosieæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles
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Three thousand maybe, foreign substance and things like xanthium gum, which is an artificial thickener, ammonium carbonate, which is a synthetic leavening agent that doesn't sound organic to me.
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Gimme an MSG sandwich with a xanthium gum chaser, to go!
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