burdock
- n any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
- The fields were tangled with tall, unmown yellow grass; meadows were snarled with burdock and thistle.
- Connoisseurs start with a daiginjo like Higan from Niigata prefecture, which boasts a pretty transparency and refreshing taste that goes well with salty burdock-root chips.
- He must lie immobile in brambles half the years of his life, or crouch in duck boats, shin up tall trees, wiggle all day through burdock.