ARCTIUM LAPPA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Arctium lappa mean? • ARCTIUM LAPPA (noun)
The noun ARCTIUM LAPPA has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: ARCTIUM LAPPA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ARCTIUM LAPPA (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Arctium lappa; great burdock; greater burdock; cocklebur
Hypernyms ("Arctium lappa" is a kind of...):
burdock; clotbur (any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs)
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