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Definition of Broad-leaved dock
1. Noun. European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America.
Generic synonyms: Dock, Sorrel, Sour Grass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broad-leaved Dock
Literary usage of Broad-leaved dock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Farm Friends and Farm Foes: A Text-book of Agricultural Science by Clarence Moores Weed (1910)
"These are the Curled Dock, Sour Dock, or Yellow Dock, and the Bitter Dock or
broad-leaved dock. The former is easily distinguished by its comparatively ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"and the bitter or broad-leaved dock (R. obtusifolius, Linn.). These are introduced
from the Old World. Several species are native. See Rumex. ..."
3. J. M. Nickell's Botanical Ready Reference (1880)
"1990 - BUMEX LUNARIA. Moon Wort. Sorrel Tree. - 1991 - BUMEX OBTUSIFOLIUS.
Blunt-leaved Dock. Broad- leaved Dock. Wild Patience. Analogen? to Rumex Crispus. ..."
4. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"broad-leaved dock. St. roughish ; radical Ivs. ovate, obtuse ; valves toothed,
one of them principally bearing a granule on the back.—7J. N. States. ..."
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