corncockles
Meaning of corncockles
plural noun
a pink-flowered Mediterranean plant introduced into Britain, where it became a cornfield weed. It has since been almost eradicated because its poisonous seeds contaminate flour.
early 18th century: from corn1 + cockle (from Old English coccul ‘corncockle’, perhaps via Latin from Greek kokkos ‘berry’).
Information about corncockles
- It is a name.
- The singular form of corncockles is: corncockle.
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Hyphenation of corncockles
corn-cock-les
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- corncockles is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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