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burdock

Noun

bur=dock

WORDNET DICTIONARY

burdock(n = noun.plant) clotbur - any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs; Array

is a member of arctium, genus arctium

has particulars: arctium minus, common burdock, lesser burdock, arctium lappa, cocklebur, great burdock, greater burdock

is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex

burdock, n. [Bur + dock the plant.].

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals. [1913 Webster]

" The common burdock is the Lappa officinalis." [1913 Webster]

burdock, n. any plant of the genus Arctium, with prickly flowers and docklike leaves.

Etymology

BUR + DOCK(3)

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