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GREATER BURDOCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does greater burdock mean?
• GREATER BURDOCK (noun)
The noun GREATER 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 use
Familiarity information: GREATER BURDOCK 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 ("greater 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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