Word: tribulus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puncture weed's burrlike seeds can flatten bicycle tires, foul up cotton-picking machinery, rip through horsehide and gouge cattle. Humans get stabbed by the burrs when they garden, walk barefoot or when they pitch in to a harvest. Even the puncture weed's scientific name, Tribulus terrestris-"earthly bed of spikes," takes account of the tribulations it causes...
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