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Noun: Arctium lappa
  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
    - great burdock, greater burdock, cocklebur

Type of: burdock, clotbur

Encyclopedia: Arctium lappa

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