clotbur

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Etymology

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From clote +‎ burr. Compare clitbur.

Noun

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clotbur (plural clotburs)

  1. (UK, dialect) The burdock.
    • 1879, Richard Chandler Alexander Prior, On the popular names of British plants:
      a weed with large leaves and burs somewhat like those of the burdock or clotbur
  2. The cocklebur.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for clotbur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)