corn cockle

corn cockle

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

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[Early Modern English : corn, grain (since the corn cockle was once a common weed in wheat fields) + cockle.]

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corn cockle - European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in AmericaAgrostemma githago, corn campion, crown-of-the-fieldAgrostemma, genus Agrostemma - a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cocklesweed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants