Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several weedy, chiefly biennial plants of the genus Arctium in the composite family, having pink or purplish flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts and forming a bur in fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The common name of the Arctium Lappa, a coarse, broad-leafed biennial weed, natural order Compositæ, having the numerous awns of the involucral bracts hooked at the tip. It is a native of the old world, but widely naturalized in America, and cultivated as a vegetable in Japan. It is in popular repute as a diaphoretic and diuretic, and as a remedy for rheumatism, catarrh, cutaneous diseases, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
Etymologies
- bur1 + dock4. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is particularly well reported for bats, with Hill & Smith (1984) discussing cases of bats dying after being entangled in burdock burs, after getting impaled on the spines of cacti, desert shrubs and rose thorns, and after getting strangled by Spanish moss fibres.”
“The _Articum Lappa_, more commonly called the burdock," explained”
“Blood-cleansing herbs such as burdock root, dandelion root, red clover flower, and nettle leaf—in any combination—given to a nursing mother or to the newborn will help clear impurities from the bloodstream, thus helping clear cradle cap.”
“Large green leaves were wrappers, some of them, such as burdock, cooked as greens.”
“Forager Steve Brill leads walks in New York City, finding items such as burdock root, wild carrots and wild parsnips.”
“There are a certain number of plants which we always looked upon as weeds, such as burdock and wild carrot, for example.”
“Add celery, carrot and burdock and sauté for 5 more minutes.”
“Add celery, carrot and burdock and sauté for 5 more minutes.”
“Dandelion root, burdock, and astragalus are all quite rank, and have the additional benefit of being good for your liver.”
“The other plot, which he had acquired in dowry from his first wife's miserly father, was on a rocky hillside high on the far bank of the river, meager land fit only for burdock and stinging nettle and more of the stones with which the soil was so generously sewn.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘burdock’.
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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Herbs: How Fragrant, How Delicious
Delicious scents in an edible nibble.
zedoary, zahtar, yarrow, wormwood, wasabi, verbena, valerian, thyme, Thai basil, tarragon, sweet basil, sorrel and 59 more...
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trace
utum, diorite, Mandelbrot, uropygium, bravura, vulpine, vervain, burdock, souse, shantay, legume, sinew and 26 more...
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Groceries
strawberries, baby spinach, black beans, cinnamon, oranges, apples, fstg multigrain t..., olive oil, simply orange juice, tomato sauce, wholly guacamole, salt sense and 115 more...
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the gardener and apothecary's
bryony, chamomile, frond, sweet bay, laurel, monkshood, henbane, hemlock, parsley, rosemary, thyme, lady's mantle and 140 more...
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Number 9 Dream
By David Mitchell
slag-heap, coracle, unsilt, aquiline, crispen, treatise, hippocampus, fortuitous, megalomania, malinger, dreck, escarpment and 97 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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a modern herbal
mugwort, horehound, hellebore, chamomile, comfrey, rosemary, calendula, rose, lavender, lamb's quarters, gamboge, mustard and 108 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (B)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
balcony, bailey, baguette, bairn, balalaika, baldric, balefire, baby's breath, ballet, balm of gilead, balsam, baluster and 188 more...
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the blood jet is poetry
A selection of frequent or favourite words from Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, as part of my bid to read them all. Quotes can be found on each citation page.
whiteness, zen, dryad, rook, tulip, kindness, troublous, portico, prospect, blight, havoc, millrace and 62 more...
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words that jon likes
orthorexia, gastroenterologist, liquify, platypus, buffoonery, sockets, a'a, seersucker, bowdlerize, brouhaha, incendiary, aplomb and 8 more...
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what's this we're eating?
Foods I've learned to cook with (and love) thanks to Community Supported Agriculture, permaculture, gardening, and friends.
ramps, sunchokes, black radish, sorrel, hon tsai tai, potato onions, burdock, garlic scapes, komatsuma, pluots, amaranth, daikon and 12 more...
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.flora
amaranth, anther, apothecary, birch, bloom, bramble, briar, cedar, clove, currant, thorn, thicket and 63 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for burdock.
ofravens This is Azalea Path.
A field of burdock opens to the south.
from "Electra on Azalea Path," Sylvia Plath Apr 8, 2008