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Definition: Burdock |
BurdockNoun1. Any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "burdock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Burdock \Bur"dock\, noun. [Bur dock the plant.]. (references) |
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| Burdock illustration from Project Runebergs edition of "Bilder ur Nordens Flora". |
Burdock, refers any of a group of perennial flowering plants in the Genus Arctium — thistles in the Family Asteraceae. Burdock grows wild throughout most of Europe and Asia, where it is noted primarily for it's burrs that cling to clothing and hair.
The taproot of young burdock plants can be harvested and eaten like parsnip. While generally out of favor in modern European cuisine, it remains popular in Asian cuisine. Immature flower stalks may also be harvested in late spring, before flowers appear; the taste resembles artichoke, to which the burdock is related.
Folk herbalists consider dried burdock to be a diuretic, diaphoretic, and a blood purifying agent.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Burdock."
Synonym: BurdockSynonym: clotbur (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Burdock |
| English words defined with "burdock": Arctium, Arctium lappa ♦ Clote, cocklebur ♦ genus Arctium, great burdock, greater burdock ♦ Hordock ♦ Lappaceous. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Burdock Blood Bitters. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Black Jack Burdock. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Burdock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Burdock" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "burdock" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Burdock | Last name | 170 | 44,372 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "burdock": BURDOCK BLEND ♦ common burdock ♦ great burdock ♦ greater burdock ♦ lesser burdock. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
agriculture burdock | 164 |
burdock | 87 |
burdock root | 65 |
burdock importer | 59 |
burdock company list | 29 |
burdock seller | 26 |
burdock buyer wholesale | 7 |
burdock plant | 5 |
burdock oil | 4 |
burdock picture | 3 |
burdock root use | 3 |
burdock root benefit | 3 |
burdock recipe | 3 |
acne burdock root | 3 |
common burdock | 3 |
burdock herb | 2 |
burdock group | 2 |
burdock tea | 2 |
dandelion and burdock | 2 |
burdock recipe root | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "burdock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rodhe. (various references) | |
Arabic | الأرقطيون نبات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | репей. (various references) | |
Chinese | ' (Arctium lappa, great burdock). (various references) | |
Czech | lopuch (bur). (various references) | |
Danish | glat burre. (various references) | |
Dutch | klis (burr). (various references) | |
Finnish | takiainen (bur). (various references) | |
French | bardane (burr). (various references) | |
German | klette (barnacle, bind, bur, burr, limpet, nuisance). (various references) | |
Greek | κολλιτσίδα (bur). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bojtorján (bur, burr). (various references) | |
Italian | bardana (great burdock). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 牛' . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ぼう (pentagram, Reverend). (various references) | |
Manx | cramman sooree, bollan dhoa, boaghan-doa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urdockbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bardana. (various references) | |
Romanian | brusture. (various references) | |
Russian | лопух большой. (various references) | |
Scottish | dogha (a burdock). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | repuh, čičak (bur). (various references) | |
Spanish | bardana (lesser burdock). (various references) | |
Swedish | kardborre (bur, burr). (various references) | |
Turkish | dulavratotu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | реп'ях (agrimony), лопух (bur). (various references) | |
Welsh | cyngaf (burs), cacimwci. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Arctium lappa. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "burdock": burdocks. (additional references) | |
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"Burdock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badock, Barock, Bodvoc, Budoch, Bundock, burdo, mudrock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "burdock" (pronounced 'Bur"dock'): Candock, Daddock, Haddock, Piddock, Puddock, shaddock. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-k-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: brock, bucko, drouk, duroc. | |
-3 letters: bock, buck, burd, cord, cork, crud, curb, curd, dock, dork, dour, drub, duck, duro, kudo, rock, ruck. | |
-4 letters: bod, bro, bud, bur, cob, cod, cor, cub, cud, cur, doc, dor, dub, duo, kob, kor, orb, orc, oud, our, rob, roc, rod, rub, udo, urb, urd. | |
-5 letters: bo, do, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-k-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burdocks. | |
+2 letters: buckboard, duckboard, rockbound. | |
+3 letters: background, buckboards, duckboards. | |
+4 letters: backgrounds, bloodsucker. | |
+5 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder, bloodsuckers. | |
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