单词 | burdock |
释义 | burdockn. Botany. 1. a. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > burdock(s) clotea700 bardanc1250 cletec1425 bur1480 clot-bur1548 burdock1597 clite1597 clithe1597 hardock1608 cuckold1698 hurr-burr1796 hare-bur1866 flapper-bag1871 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 665 The great Burre is called..Great Burre, Burre Docke, or Clot Burre. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 181 Take..of the seedes..of the bur~dock. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 386 The Burdock, whose heads sometimes fasten themselves to your clothes as you pass. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Holy Grail 570 A bed-mate of the snail and eft and snake, In grass and burdock. 1860 All Year Round 24 Mar. 510 The hooks of the burdock cling to the passing animal, and are carried..miles away. Categories » b. Rarely applied to Xanthium strumarium (Small Burdock or bur-weed n. at bur n. Compounds 2). Categories » c. prairie burdock, of North America ( Silphium terebinthinaceum), having leaves like those of the burdock. 2. attributive, as in burdock-leaf, burdock-root. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > burdock(s) > leaf burdock-leaf1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 360 Take a handful of Sorrel, and lap it in a Bur-docke leafe. 1766 B. Gale in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 245 (note) A pultice of burdock-root pounded. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xix. 268 The mighty burdock-leaves..beloved of painters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1597 |
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