: any of various plants (such as a cocklebur or burdock) having burry fruit
Examples of burweed in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebLawn burweed is a winter annual that germinates in the fall, grows in the winter and starts producing the painful burs in the spring.—Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2022
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