bathurst bur

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


Explained in quotation.

1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 261:

«The Bathurst bur ( Xanthium spinosuzn), a plant withlong triple spines like the barbary, and burs which are ruinousto the wool of the sheep – – otherwise, itself very like achenopodium, or good-fat-hen.»

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