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Burdock

Burdock Meaning & Definition
Burdock Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Burdock?

[n] any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs

Synonyms | Synonyms for Burdock: clotbur

Related Terms | Find terms related to Burdock:

See Also | Arctium | Arctium lappa | Arctium minus | cocklebur | common burdock | genus Arctium | great burdock | greater burdock | lesser burdock | subshrub | suffrutex

Burdock In Webster's Dictionary

\Bur"dock\, n. [Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs ({Lappa}), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals. Note: The common burdock is the {Lappa officinalis}.

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