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burdock
/ ˈbɜːˌdɒk /
noun
- 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)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of burdock1
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Example Sentences
One of the sheep, on its way back to the pen, saw a well-loaded burdock that had been overlooked.
Only somewhere close by, persistently a great burdock leaf flapped and whispered.
This Clote leaf is by many considered to be the Burdock leaf, but it was more probably the name of the Water-lily.
So she took it off and laid it under a big burdock plant leaf near the pond, to keep the flowers and ribbons dry.
A few twigs of the burdock were cut off, and carefully wrapped in paper by the investigators.
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