Burdock

Bur′dock

,

Noun.

[

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

.

,

Noun.

[bur and dock.] A genus of plants, called Arctium. They are troublesome weeds.

The lesser burdock is a species of zanthium.

Burdock

burdock ‎(plural burdocks)

any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium

Kurdish: girnij (ku)
Latgalian: dodzs
Latvian: dadzis
Lithuanian: varnalėša (lt)
Luxembourgish: Klett f
Macedonian: чи́чок m ‎(číčok)
Persian: باباآدم (fa) ‎(bâbâdam)
Polish: łopian (pl) m, łopuch (pl) m
Portuguese: bardana (pt)
Romanian: brusture (ro)
Russian: лопу́х (ru) m ‎(lopúx), репе́й (ru) m ‎(repéj), репе́йник (ru) m ‎(repéjnik)
Scottish Gaelic: seircean m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: чи́чак m, рѐпух m, ло̀пӯх m

Roman: číčak (sh) m, rèpuh (sh) m, lòpūh (sh) m
Southern Altai: уак ‎(uak)
Spanish: bardana (es), cachurrea, cadillo, lampazo (es), lapaizo, pegadillo
Turkish: dulavratotu (tr), dulavratot