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GREATER BURDOCK
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I. (noun)
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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
Synonyms:
Arctium lappa; cocklebur; great burdock; greater burdock
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Hypernyms ("greater burdock" is a kind of...):
burdock; clotbur (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)