English > clotbur: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs. |
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| Synonym | burdock |
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| Member of | Arctium, genus Arctium | burdock |
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| Narrower | common burdock, lesser burdock, Arctium minus | A plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil |
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| great burdock, greater burdock, cocklebur, Arctium lappa | burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor |
| Broader | subshrub, suffrutex | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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| Spanish | arctium, bardana, clotbur, lampazo |
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| Catalan | bardana, clotbur |
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