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  • proper noun A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist A. Burkwood (fl. 1929).

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Examples

  • Burkwood viburnums are usually turning a rich maroon color at this time of year, but they turn very slowly.

    Nature hit snooze button on foliage, just now starting to pop Joel M. Lerner 2010

  • Burkwood, one of the House of Lords, to whom I delivered a petition, who took it of me and presented it to some of the rest of the House of Lords for my husband's releasement; who, when they had seen it, said that they could not release him, but had committed his releasement to the judges at the next assizes.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • In March, a Champaign County jury convicted Khaled Alghadi, 27, who listed an address in the 900 block of East Burkwood Drive, of robbery for a purse snatching and mugging that occurred about a year ago.

    The News-Gazette Local Stories 2009

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