1. Any of several weedy plants, especially the corn cockle.

2. Cockle definition is - any of several weedy plants of the pink family; especially : corn Cockle.

3. Despite serious safety concerns, people take corn Cockle for fluid retention, cough, menstrual disorders, worms, and yellowed

4. : an annual hairy weed (Agrostemma githago) of the pink family with purplish-red flowers that is found in grain fields First Known Use of corn Cockle 1713, in the …

5. Kok'-'-l (King James Version margin "stinking weeds," the Revised Version, margin "noisome weeds"; bo'shah, from Hebrew root ba'ash, "to stink"; batos): "Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and Cockle instead of barley" ().On account of the meaning of the Hebrew root we should expect that the reference was rather to repulsive, offensive weeds than to the pretty corn Cockle.