cockle

  • 101Goolwa cockle — /gulwə ˈkɒkəl/ (say goohlwuh kokuhl) noun SA → pipi …

  • 102corn cockle — noun European annual having large trumpet shaped reddish purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America • Syn: ↑corn campion, ↑crown of the field, ↑Agrostemma githago • Hypernyms: ↑weed …

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  • 103cow cockle — noun European annual with pale rose colored flowers; cultivated flower or self sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort • Syn: ↑cowherb, ↑Vaccaria hispanica, ↑Vaccaria pyramidata, ↑Saponaria vaccaria • …

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  • 104white cockle — noun bluish green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening opening white flowers with much inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis • Syn: ↑white campion, ↑evening lychnis, ↑bladder campion, ↑Silene latifolia, ↑Lychnis alba …

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  • 105beaked cockle — noun : a mollusk of the genus Nuculana or family Nuculanidae called also elongate nut shell …

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  • 106dog cockle — noun : any of certain marine bivalve mollusks (family Glycymeridae) having substantial rounded shells with dark velvety periostraca and prominent hinge teeth, a crescentic foot, and an open mantle and living chiefly on the bottom of warm seas …

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  • 107false cockle — noun : cardita 2 …

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  • 108indian cockle — noun Usage: usually capitalized I Etymology: indian (II) 1 : cocculus indicus …

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  • 109rock cockle — noun : any of several comparatively small edible clams (family Veneridae) of the Pacific coast of No. America that have thick rounded ridged shells resembling those of the cockles …

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  • 110sticky cockle — noun : night flowering catchfly …

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