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Definition of Burdock
1. Noun. Any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs.
Group relationships: Arctium, Genus Arctium
Specialized synonyms: Arctium Minus, Common Burdock, Lesser Burdock, Arctium Lappa, Cocklebur, Great Burdock, Greater Burdock
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Definition of Burdock
1. n. A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
Definition of Burdock
1. Noun. Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Burdock
1. a coarse weed [n -S]
Medical Definition of Burdock
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Burdock
Literary usage of Burdock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"A burdock BIRD-TRAP October E have indeed a most formidable device in the tenacious
burr seed of the burdock. Beset with hooked - tipped spines, ..."
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