GREAT BURDOCK

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 I. (noun) 

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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

Synonyms:

Arctium lappa; cocklebur; great burdock; greater burdock

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("great burdock" is a kind of...):

burdock; clotbur (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)

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