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Definition of Lesser burdock
1. Noun. A plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; found in most of Europe and North Africa.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lesser Burdock
Literary usage of Lesser burdock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Diseases of the Skin by Erasmus Wilson (1857)
"... and mezereum ; decoction of the arctium lappa or lesser burdock; ... or decoction
of the lesser burdock, is made by macerating an ounce of the root in ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Called also Ditch-, Sheep- or Clot-bur, Button Bur, Small or lesser burdock, Sea
Burdock and Bur-thistle. Aug.-Oct. Family 43. ..."
3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Europe and Asia, nat. in U. 8. and widely elsewhere' lesser burdock, Common
Burdock (of I'. S.). Generally confounded with (a) and called by the same names. ..."
4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... bose heads and its cordate ovate leaves, the lowermost of which attain a very
large size. A. minus, the lesser burdock, ..."
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