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burdock Bot.|ˈbɜːdɒk|
[f. bur n.1 + dock n.]
1. A coarse weedy plant (Arctium Lappa, and kindred species) common on waste ground, bearing prickly flower-heads called burs, and large leaves like those of the dock.
1597Gerard Herbal cclxxvi. §i. 664 The great Burre is called..Great Burre, Burre Docke, or Clot Burre. 1605Timme Quersit. iii. 181 Take..of the seedes..of the bur⁓dock. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 383 The Bur⁓dock, whose heads sometimes fasten themselves to your clothes as you pass. 1859Tennyson Holy Grail 570 A bed-mate of the snail and eft and snake, In grass and burdock. 1860All Y. Round No. 48. 510 The hooks of the burdock cling to the passing animal, and are carried..miles away.
b. Rarely applied to Xanthium strumarium (Small Burdock or burweed).
c. prairie burdock, of N. America (Silphium terebinthinaceum), having leaves like those of the burdock.
2. attrib., as in burdock-leaf, burdock-root.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 281 Take a handful of Sorrel, and lay it in a Bur-dock leaf. 1764Gale in Phil. Trans. LV. 245 note, A pultice of burdock-root pounded. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xix. 268 The mighty burdock-leaves..beloved of painters. |