Definition of Clotbur

1. Noun. Any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs.

Exact synonyms: Burdock
Group relationships: Arctium, Genus Arctium
Specialized synonyms: Arctium Minus, Common Burdock, Lesser Burdock, Arctium Lappa, Cocklebur, Great Burdock, Greater Burdock
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex

Definition of Clotbur

1. n. The burdock.

Definition of Clotbur

1. Noun. (UK dialect) The burdock. ¹

2. Noun. The cocklebur. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clotbur

1. a weed [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clotbur

clostridium perfringens
clostridium tetani
clostripain
closure
closure by compartment
closure principle
closured
closures
closuring
closylate
clot
clot-dissolving medications
clot buster
clot retraction
clot retraction time
clotbur (current term)
clotburs
clote
clotes
cloth
cloth cap
cloth covering
clothback
clothbacks
clothbound
clothe
clothed
clothes
clothes-brush
clothes-brushes

Literary usage of Clotbur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... L. (Tnou.vv clotbur.) Hoary-pubescent ; stems elender, with slender yellow 3-parted spines at the base of the lanceolate or ovate- lanceolate leaves ..."

2. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Several other species of clotbur are common and all are about as obnoxious ... In its tender youth (three to eight inches in height) clotbur can be killed ..."

3. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"PENNSYLVANIA clotbur. (Man. p. 912.) In open places, Ont. to DC and Minn. ... BEACH clotbur. (Man. p. 913.) On river shores, lake and sea beaches, ..."

4. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"2 lVA MARSH ELDER. (I. frutescens.) 3 XANTHIUM. 1 a Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, usually with spines in the axils SPINY clotbur. ..."

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