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Definition of Clotbur
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 Clotbur
1. n. The burdock.
Definition of Clotbur
1. Noun. (UK dialect) The burdock. ¹
2. Noun. The cocklebur. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clotbur
1. a weed [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clotbur
Literary usage of Clotbur
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... L. (Tnou.vv clotbur.) Hoary-pubescent ; stems elender, with slender yellow
3-parted spines at the base of the lanceolate or ovate- lanceolate leaves ..."
2. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Several other species of clotbur are common and all are about as obnoxious ...
In its tender youth (three to eight inches in height) clotbur can be killed ..."
3. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"PENNSYLVANIA clotbur. (Man. p. 912.) In open places, Ont. to DC and Minn. ...
BEACH clotbur. (Man. p. 913.) On river shores, lake and sea beaches, ..."
4. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"2 lVA MARSH ELDER. (I. frutescens.) 3 XANTHIUM. 1 a Leaves lanceolate to
ovate-lanceolate, usually with spines in the axils SPINY clotbur. ..."
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