burdock. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

burdock

SYLLABICATION:	bur·dock
PRONUNCIATION:	bûrdk
NOUN:	Any of several weedy, chiefly biennial plants of the genus Arctium in the composite family, having pink or purplish flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts and forming a bur in fruit.
ETYMOLOGY:	bur¹ + dock⁴.


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