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Meaning of BURDOCK

Pronunciation:  'burdâk

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
 

BURDOCK is a 7 letter word that starts with B.

 

 Synonyms: clotbur
 
 See Also: Arctium, Arctium lappa, Arctium minus, cocklebur, common burdock, genus Arctium, great burdock, greater burdock, lesser burdock, subshrub, suffrutex

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Bur"dock\, n. [Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.)
A genus of coarse biennial herbs ({Lappa}), bearing small
burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or
wool of animals.

Note: The common burdock is the {Lappa officinalis}.

 

 

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