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greater burdock

DEFINITIONS OF: greater burdock

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n 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
Type of:
burdock, clotbur
any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
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