burdock

Questions about burdock

What does burdock mean?

burdock means "any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs".

How many syllables are in burdock?

burdock has 2 syllables and divides as bur-dock under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for burdock?

Close synonyms include clotbur. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burdock a common word?

burdock is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.