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GREAT BURDOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great burdock mean? 

GREAT BURDOCK (noun)
  The noun GREAT BURDOCK 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 useplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GREAT BURDOCK (noun)


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 ("great 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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