burdock

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burdock - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Burdock \Bur"dock\, n. [Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.)
     A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small
     burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or
     wool of animals.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The common burdock is the Lappa officinalis.
           [1913 Webster]

burdock - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  burdock
      n 1: any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia
           having stout taproots and producing burs [syn: burdock,
           clotbur]