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burdock
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synonyms: Arctium clote ???
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Definition:Arctium:A genus of coarse biennial herbs bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---Plants of the genus Arctium have dark green leaves that can grow up to 70 cm (28 in) long. They are generally large, coarse and ovate, with the lower ones being heart-shaped. They are woolly underneath. The leafstalks are generally hollow. Arctium species generally flower from July through to October. Burdock flowers provide essential pollen and nectar for honeybees around August when clover is on the wane and before the goldenrod starts to bloom.[...]text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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He wrapped the trout in layers of burdock leaves and cool mud.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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the great oak shadowing a bare place in mid-pasture; the high bank where the ash-trees grew; the sudden slope of the old marl-pit making a red background for the burdock;
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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Stubbornly, as though insisting on its rights, the wind stopped Levin, and tearing the leaves and flowers off the lime trees and stripping the white birch branches into strange unseemly nakedness, it twisted everything on one side—acacias, flowers, burdocks, long grass, and tall tree-tops.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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