broad-leaved dock
- noun
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acederas de hojas anchas
- The broad-leaved dock is easily identified by its large, rounded leaves.
Examples
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Gardeners often struggle to remove broad-leaved dock from their vegetable patches.
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Many gardeners consider broad-leaved docks a nuisance.
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The broad-leaved dock was originally native to Europe but is now widespread in North America.
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The broad-leaved dock is often found in disturbed soils.
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Gardeners often struggle to remove broad-leaved dock from their vegetable patches.
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The broad-leaved dock is easily identified by its large, rounded leaves.
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Many gardeners consider broad-leaved dock a nuisance in their gardens.
Synonyms
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A coarse wild plant with long roots whose young leaves can be eaten
A common weed with large blunt leaves and a bitter root
A plant with broad, rounded leaves and a bitter root that often grows as a weed
A plant that lives for many years with broad rounded leaves, a bitter root, often growing as a weed
Surface Forms
Morphology
broad-leaved + dock
The noun phrase literally combines the adjective 'broad-leaved' (broad + leaved) with 'dock' (a Rumex plant), so the meaning 'a dock plant with broad leaves' is directly derivable from the parts. This adjective+noun compounding is a standard, cross-linguistic descriptive pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Broad-leaved dock gets its name from what it looks like: it has large, wide leaves — broad-leaved — and it is one of the plants called dock, so the name simply points to a common wild 'weed' you can easily spot.