NOUN | plant | greater burdock, great 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 |
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Meaning | burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use. | |
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Synonyms | great burdock, cocklebur, Arctium lappa | |
Broader | burdock, clotbur | Any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs |
Spanish | xanthium | |
Catalan | Arctium lappa, xanthium |
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