clotbur

1. 1.

   any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs

   Synonymsburdock

   Broadersubshrub

   Narrowercommon burdockgreat burdock

   Part ofArctium

Other forms of clotbur

plural

clotburs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clotbur

What does clotbur mean?

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

How many syllables are in clotbur?

clotbur has 2 syllables: clot-bur. The stress falls on "clot".

What is another word for clotbur?

Close synonyms include burdock. 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 clotbur a common word?

clotbur 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.