Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lappa"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Burdock \Bur"dock\, n. [Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.)
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}.
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