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Type Words
Synonyms clotbur
Type of subshrub, suffrutex
Has types arctium minus, cocklebur, common burdock, arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock, lesser burdock

Examples of burdock

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It really is a wonderful meal with a wild leaf salad and roasted burdock root.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
In the pasture, where our burdock grows, Holsteins recline, chewing their cud.
From the time.com
For example, the restaurant will offer clam chowder arranged with Japanese burdock root.
From the kentucky.com
This could probably be eliminated but if you can find burdock, use it.
From the gothamgal.com
Never let burdock dry out in its early life and prevent it from being swamped by weeds.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Dandelion and burdock was originally a lightly fermented beverage similar to root beer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A quick dandelion and burdock at the temp finished off the evening.
From the leighjournal.co.uk
Being an experienced digger-up of burdock I went prepared with a pickaxe as well as a spade.
From the guardian.co.uk
I leave selected patches of nettles for butterflies and burdock comes from the adjacent fields.
From the bbc.co.uk
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  • Any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
  • Burdock is any of a group of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium, family Asteraceae. Native to the Old World, several species have been widely introduced worldwide.
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  • A root extract with antibacterial properties. May also reduce inflammations such as rashes, redness, acne, eczema.
  • This slender root vegetable has brown skin and grayish white flesh. Used in soups as well as with vegetables and meats. Known by the Japanese as "Gobo."
  • Used in blood cleansing and detoxification combinations as an important anti-inflammatory and anti-infective and is used for its specific antihistamine activity in cases of itching, or eruptive skin problems such as cold sore outbreaks, acne and eczema.
  • Arctium lappa. A plant whose seeds and root have been used in some cultures to treat certain medical problems. It may have antioxidant effects. Also called lappa and happy major.
  • Is the common name for any of the thistles comprising the genus Arctium of the flowering plant family Asteraceae, characterized by globular, generally pink or purplish flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts and with fruits in the form of rounded burrs with many seeds. ...
  • Is a wild, hardy, thistle-like plant whose root is valued in cooking for its earthy flavor and strengthening qualities. Burdock is also called gobo.