burdock
noun/ˈbɜːdɒk/
/ˈbɜːrdɑːk/
[uncountable]- a plant with flowers that become prickly and stick to passing animalsTopics Plants and treesc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from burr + dock in the sense ‘wild plant’.
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