Corn cockle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
    corn campion; Agrostemma githago; crown-of-the-field.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma ∨ Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields.

Webster 1913