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  • noun Plural form of butterbur.

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Examples

  • The spreading circles broaden outwards, and make their little marsh, planted with water-grass and forget-me-nots and blue bog-bean, and in the spring with butterburs.

    The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

  • By these, but on the lower ground almost level with the water, big forget-me-nots, butterburs, and wild snake's-head lilies should be set, and all the crimson and white varieties of garden daisy.

    The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

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