Burdock

//ˈbɝːdɑːk// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.

    "Your love is like a studded leather headlock Your kiss, it could put creases in the rain You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade"

  2. 2
    any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs wordnet

Synonyms

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clotburgoboweedwild rhubarb

Example

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"I ate a greater burdock tempura."

Etymology

From Middle English *bury dokke (attested as plural bury dokkis), equivalent to bur(ry) + dock.

Related phrases

common burdockdandelion and burdockedible burdockgreat burdockgreater burdocklesser burdocksea burdock

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