noun
1. 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
• Syn: ↑great burdock, ↑greater burdock, ↑Arctium lappa
2. any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
• Syn: ↑cockle-bur, ↑cockleburr, ↑cockle-burr
• Hypernyms: ↑weed
• Member Holonyms: ↑Xanthium, ↑genus Xanthium
Useful english dictionary. 2012.