burdock (redirected from burdocks)

bur·dock  (bûrdk)

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.

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[bur + dock.]

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burdock

Noun

a weed with large heart-shaped leaves, and burlike fruits [bur + dock⁴]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

burdock - any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs clotbur Arctium, genus Arctium - burdock Arctium minus, common burdock, lesser burdock - a plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; found in most of Europe and North Africa Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock, cocklebur - burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base