Arctium lappa

Definitions of Arctium lappa
  1. noun
    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: cocklebur, great burdock, greater burdock
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    type of:
    burdock, clotbur
    any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
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