Definition of Prairie dock

1. Noun. Stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Prairie Dock

prairia Sabbatia
prairie
prairie-dog
prairie-dogging
prairie-doggings
prairie anemone
prairie aster
prairie berry
prairie bird's-foot trefoil
prairie chicken
prairie clover
prairie clovers
prairie coneflower
prairie crab
prairie dock (current term)
prairie dog
prairie dogged
prairie dogging
prairie doggings
prairie dogs
prairie fowl
prairie fox
prairie gentian
prairie golden aster
prairie gourd
prairie gourd vine
prairie grouse
prairie lotus

Literary usage of Prairie dock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"prairie dock OR BURDOCK. RESIN PLANT. ... there is a rather good chance that it may be the prairie dock, although the perplexities arising among the ..."

2. 57 Ways to Protect Your Home Environment (& Yourself) by Rick Weinzierl (1999)
"These include prairie dock, compass plant, asters, golden- rods, rattlesnake master, big bluestem grass, and Indiangrass. You will probably need to support ..."

3. The Centennial History of Illinois by Illinois Centennial Commission, Clarence Walworth Alvord (1920)
"... such as prairie dock, cup plant, and compass plant, a number of gaudy sunflowers, several species of oxeye, and large purple patches of ironweed, ..."

4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1911)
"... even in spring in the occurrence of such plants as the shooting star, downy phlox, orange puccoon, Indian plantain, tall phlox and prairie dock. ..."

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