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Definition of Arctium
1. Noun. Burdock.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Burdock, Clotbur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arctium
Literary usage of Arctium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular field botany: Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the by Agnes Catlow (1848)
"... Arctium LAPPA. Common Burdock. Common on waste places and way-sides, growing
three or four feet high, with very large lower leaves, ..."
2. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1875)
"Arctium LAPPA. From time immemorial, this plant has been used as a "blood purifier"
in domestic practice. It grows in nearly every country, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Arctium L. Sp. PI. 816. 1753. Large coarse branching, rough or ... Type species :
Arctium Lappa L. Bracts of the involucre densely cottony ; heads corymbose ..."
4. Flora Hertfordiensis by Robert Holden Webb, William Higgins Coleman (1849)
"Arctium. Burdock. LINN. CL. xix. ORD. i. 1. A. Lappa, common B. Clot Bur. Lappa is
a word used by Latin ... (Arctium majus) 182. EB 1228. 2ed. 1107. Loc. ..."
5. Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Melford Eugene Douglass (1900)
"Arctium LAPPA. First proven by Dr. Jacob Jeanes. Burdock. Tincture of the root
and seeds. Head. — Eruptions on the head, face and neck. Tinea capitis. ..."
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