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COMMON BURDOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common burdock mean? 

COMMON BURDOCK (noun)
  The noun COMMON BURDOCK has 1 sense:

1. a plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; found in most of Europe and North Africaplay

  Familiarity information: COMMON BURDOCK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMMON BURDOCK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; found in most of Europe and North Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arctium minus; common burdock; lesser burdock

Hypernyms ("common burdock" is a kind of...):

burdock; clotbur (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)


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