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burdock

/bur-dok/US // ˈbɜr dɒk //UK // (ˈbɜːˌdɒk) //

牛蒡,牛蒡子,蒡子,蒡

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a composite plant of the genus Arctium, especially A. lappa, a coarse, broad-leaved weed bearing prickly heads of burs that stick to the clothing.

Examples

  • One of the sheep, on its way back to the pen, saw a well-loaded burdock that had been overlooked.

  • Only somewhere close by, persistently a great burdock leaf flapped and whispered.

  • This Clote leaf is by many considered to be the Burdock leaf, but it was more probably the name of the Water-lily.

  • So she took it off and laid it under a big burdock plant leaf near the pond, to keep the flowers and ribbons dry.

  • A few twigs of the burdock were cut off, and carefully wrapped in paper by the investigators.