Bur"dock (?), n. [Bur + dock the plant.] Bot.
A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
⇒ The common burdock is the Lappa officinalis.
© Webster 1913.
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