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ARCTIUM LAPPA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Arctium lappa mean?
• ARCTIUM LAPPA (noun)
The noun ARCTIUM LAPPA has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: ARCTIUM LAPPA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Arctium lappa; cocklebur; great burdock; greater burdock
Hypernyms ("Arctium lappa" is a kind of...):
burdock; clotbur (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)
Context examples
An herbal formula containing burdock root (Arctium lappa), Turkey rhubarb root (Rheum palmatum), sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella), and slippery elm bark (Ulmus fulva) with potential immunostimulating, anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor activities.
(Essiac, NCI Thesaurus)
The scientific name is Arctium lappa.
(Arctium lappa, NCI Dictionary)
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