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  Burchfield, Charles Ephraim burden1  
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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
bur cucumber
 
NOUN:1. A weedy, annual, tendril-bearing vine (Sicyos angulatus) native to North America and having small whitish flowers and clusters of small fruits covered with long slender prickles. 2. The fruit of this vine.
 
 
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  Burchfield, Charles Ephraim burden1  
 
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