Burdock definition

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     Note: The common burdock is the {Lappa officinalis}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  burdock
       n : any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia
           having stout taproots and producing burs [syn: {clotbur}]

















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