noun
- Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs.
- synonyms: cockle-bur, cockleburr, cockle-burr
- 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: great burdock, greater burdock, Arctium lappa
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