great burdock

1. 1.

   burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use

   Synonymsgreater burdockcockleburArctium lappa

   Broaderburdock

Questions about great burdock

What does great burdock mean?

great burdock means "burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use".

What is another word for great burdock?

Close synonyms include greater burdock, cocklebur, Arctium lappa. 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 great burdock a common word?

great burdock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.