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butterbur|ˈbʌtəbɜː(r)|
Also 7 -burn.
[f. butter n.1 + bur n. Conjectured to be so named because its leaves were used for wrapping butter in; cf. butter-dock, butter-leaves in butter n.1 5. See, however, quot. 1651, which suggests a different explanation.]
A plant, Petasites vulgaris, with large soft leaves, growing in wet land; sometimes made the English name of the genus.
1548Turner Names Herbes s.v., Petasites is called in the South partes of Englande a Butter bur. 1597Gerard Herbal cclxxviii. §i. 667 Bvtter Burre doth..bring foorth flowers before the leaues, as doth Coltesfoot. 1651N. Biggs New Dispens. 43 ⁋79 From Butter-burre floweth Gum, from Chameleon bird-lime. 1673Ray Trav. (1738) II. 192 The leaves thereof are rough and round, as big very near as those of Petasites, call'd Butterburn in our language. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 389 Butter-bur has vast leaves shaped like those of the Colts-foot; many..flowers collected into an ovate thyrse. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago II. 269 A long bar of gravel, covered with giant ‘butterbur’ leaves. 1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 634/1 What..is sometimes called ‘winter heliotrope’, is the fragrant ‘butterbur’, or sweet-scented coltsfoot, Petasites (Tussilago) fragrans.
¶ Erroneously: the Burdock (Arctium lappa).
1861S. Thomson Wild Flowers iii. (ed. 4) 306 The butter⁓bur (Arctium lappa) has a repute in malignant fevers. |