burdock Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
    clotbur.

WordNet

Bur"dock noun
Etymology
Bur + dock the plant.
Definitions
  1. (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