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Xanthium strumarium
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葹 combines the grass radical 艹, signaling a botanical category, with the phonetic 施. It is a specialized plant name, usually referring to a Xanthium species or a similar weedy herb known for its burrs or distinctive growth. The character appears in traditional botanical and agricultural works as a precise taxonomic label, its meaning stable and tied to a physical species. This pairing of a semantic plant radical and a phonetic component is the standard method for constructing the extensive lexicon of Chinese flora.
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