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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs;
[syn: burdock, clotbur]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Burdock \Bur"dock\, n. [Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals. [1913 Webster] Note: The common burdock is the Lappa officinalis. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

burdock n 1: any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs [syn: burdock, clotbur]