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单词 bathurst burr
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Bathurst burrn.

/ˈbaθəːst ˈbəː/
Etymology: < Bathurst, a town in New South Wales, Australia + bur n.
A plant of the genus Xanthium, found esp. in Australia.
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1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold I. 261 The Bathurst bur (Xanthium spinosum), a plant with long triple spines like the barberry, and burs which are ruinous to the wool of sheep.
1904 ‘S. Rudd’ Sandy's Select. 4 The remaining hundred and fifty-six were under scrub, prickly-pear, wallaby-bush and Bathurst burr.
1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxx. 291 A dense crop of..Bathurst burr.
1926 ‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians Gloss. Bathurst Burr, a spiny, bean-shaped pod which grows on a weed and is notorious for attaching itself to the wool of passing sheep.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Dec. 25/1 He 'ad whiskers all over him and they was as stiff as the spines on a Bathurst burr.
1967 Southerly 27 199 Weeds flourished, wait-a-whiles, bull-burrs, wild blackberries, Bathurst burrs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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