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burdock

(bʉr′däk′)

noun

any of several plants (genus Arctium) of the composite family, with large basal leaves and purple-flowered heads covered with hooked prickles

Origin: bur + dock

See burdock in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Any of several weedy, chiefly biennial plants of the genus Arctium in the composite family, having pink or purplish flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts and forming a bur in fruit.

Origin:

Origin: bur¹

Origin: + dock⁴

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