burdock, clotbur
(noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
burdock (plural burdocks)
Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.
Source: Wiktionary
Bur"dock, n. Etym: [Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
Note: The common burdock is the Lappa officinalis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 January 2025
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
