Burdock
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bur·dock 
[bur-dok] Pronunciation Key
[bur-dok] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a composite plant of the genus Arctium, esp. A. lappa, a coarse, broad-leaved weed bearing prickly heads of burs that stick to the clothing. |
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| bur·dock
(bûr'dŏk') Pronunciation Key
n. Any of several weedy, chiefly biennial plants of the genus Arctium in the composite family, having pink or purplish flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts and forming a bur in fruit. [bur1 + dock4.] |
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burdock
burdock
"coarse, weedy plant," 1597, from bur (q.v.) + dock.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| burdock | |
noun | |
| any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Burdock
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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