clotbur

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noun

The burdock.

Similar
sea burdockburdock
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Meanings

nounclotbur (plural clotburs)

plural clotburs · alternative clotebur

  1. UKdialectalobsoleteThe burdock.

    a weed with large leaves and burs somewhat like those of the burdock or clotbur

    1879, Richard Chandler Alexander Prior, On the popular names of British plants
  2. USThe cocklebur.

    Synonyms: sea burdock

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe cocklebur.

Similar
sea burdock

More synonyms by meaning

nounany of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs

Similar
burdock
Broader
subshrubsuffrutex
Also see
burdockcocklebur

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From clote + burr. Compare clitbur.

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APA

clotbur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clotbur

MLA

“clotbur.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clotbur. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clotbur,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clotbur.

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