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Definition of Great burdock
1. Noun. Burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Burdock
Literary usage of Great burdock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Cows are fond of the plant, but if it is eaten by them in any quantity, the milk
takes a bitter flavor. Means of control the same as for great burdock. ..."
2. Modern English Prose by George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster (1908)
"The lanky young giant cut and cut and cut: great purple-bodied poke, strung with
crimson-juiced seed; great burdock, its green burrs a plague ; great ..."
3. The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines by Nicholas Culpeper (1814)
"(hd I.) THEY are also called Personata, and Loppy-major, great Burdock and
Clod-bur; it is so well known, even by the little boys, ..."
4. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Europe and Asia, nat. in US and widely elsewhere. Burdock, great burdock, Baz-
zies, Bachelor's-buttons*, Beggar's-buttons, Billy-Buttons, ..."
5. On the transmission, from parent to offspring, of some forms of disease, and by James Whitehead (1857)
"The medicine in question was a decoction of the root of the great burdock, with
the addition of a little senna, in wine and water. ..."
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