burdock (redirected from great 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 [ˈbɜːˌdɒk]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a coarse weedy Eurasian plant of the genus Arctium, having large heart-shaped leaves, tiny purple flowers surrounded by hooked bristles, and burlike fruits: family Asteraceae (composites)

[from 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

Translations

burdock [ˈbɜːdɒk] N (Bot) → bardana f

burdock

n → Klette f