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English : unexplained; perhaps from either of two medicinal and edible plants commonly known by this name (Arctium lappa and A. minus). However, the word is not recorded in OED before 1597, rather too late for surname formation.
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English : possibly a habitational name from Cleator in Cumbria, named from Old English clǣte ‘burdock’ + Old Norse erg ‘hill pasture’.Possibly an Americanized spelling of North German Klöter, a variant of Klüter, a humorous nickname for a farmer, from Middle Low German klūt(e) ‘clod’.
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a.
Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.
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Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
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An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.
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A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
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The burdock.
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The common burdock; the clotbur.