burdock
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- noun
- /ˈbɜrdɒk/
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bardana
- Where formerly the space between the planted crop edge and the stone wall was taken by burdock and nettle, the deep shadow cast by the overarching trees favors mosses and ferns.
- burdock root
- burdock leaf
- burdock plant
Examples
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Before long, he was coming around the far side of the barn where the fence was down in a patch of burdock.
Fiction book (1997) -
For tonight's dinner, let's have burdock salad and seaweed scrambled eggs, okay?
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The burdock plants are five inches tall.
Fiction book (1996) -
A burdock poultice for your head.
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I cut several burdock heads not far from the roadbed.
Fiction book (1996) -
I suddenly recalled that I had taken some scissors with me in order to cut burdock heads.
Fiction book (1996) -
I'm going to braise a pot roast using an edible mirepoix, burdock root, and kohlrabi for Christmas this year.
Blog text (22) -
From the window next to this bed, I can see how they are untended now, unpruned, overtaken with burdocks, thistles, and matted grass.
Fiction book (1998) -
He's going for a hike in the Alps and he noticed there's these clumps of like burdock seeds or burs that kept sticking to the dog's fur.
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The large leaves of the burdock were covered in dew in the early morning light.
Synonyms
A large plant with heart-shaped leaves and a root you can eat for food and medicine
A large plant with broad heart-shaped leaves that people use as food and medicine
A plant with large heart-shaped leaves and edible roots used in cooking and traditional medicine
A large wild plant with broad leaves and seed burrs that stick to animal fur
A wild plant with large leaves and round burrs that stick to clothes
A common wild plant with large rough leaves and purple flower heads
A plant that grows for two years and has seed heads that stick to clothes or animal fur
A plant in the daisy family with large leaves and sticky round seed heads
Compounds
A large plant with broad heart-shaped leaves that people use as food and medicine
- Specialized
A large plant with heart-shaped leaves and a root you can eat for food and medicine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Burdock comes from two parts: bur (a sticky 'burr') and dock (a word for a plant). So, burdock is literally the plant with prickly burrs that cling to clothes or animal fur.